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On Strategy:

A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War
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Random House Publishing Group, Jun 1, 1995 - History - 240 pages
A politico-military assessment of the Vietnam War analyzing the U.S. Army's strategic and tactical ideologies. Particularly relevant today, it stresses the futility of any military action without the full support of the people.

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User Review  - Fred - Goodreads

Started out so strong and interesting and after a while I felt a little like the author was repeating the same thoughts over and over and just changing up how he presented them in each new chapter. It ... Read full review

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User Review  - Mike Hankins - Goodreads

This book, like many war books, is more interesting as an artifact of historiography than it is as actual history. It's important to read it, only because so many other people have read it and it ... Read full review

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Contents

Tactical Victory Strategic Defeat
1
The Environment
9
The National Will The People
11
Copyright

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On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War
On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War Book by Harry G. Summers Jr.; 1982. Read On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War at Questia ...
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Strategic Choice, National Will, and the Vietnam Experience
*Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (Novato, California: Presido Press, 1982, $12.95), 225 pages. ...
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/ airchronicles/ aureview/ 1983/ Jan-Feb/ alnwick.html

JSTOR: On Strategy.
Pacific Affairs ON STRATEGY. A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. By Harry G. Summers, Jr. Novato, California: Presidio Press. 1982. xiv, 224 pp. ...
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Harry G. Summers, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... 1999) was the author of the neo-Clausewitzean analysis of the Vietnam War, titled, On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (1982). ...
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The Military Perspective on Strategy in Vietnam: Harry G. Summers ...
The Military Perspective on Strategy in Vietnam:. Harry G. Summers’s On Strategy and. Bruce Palmer’s The 25-Year Wafl. GARY R. HESS ...
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The Strategist: Issues Of Doctrine In The War On Terror
(7) Harry G. Summers, Jr., On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1984), 46. (8) Clausewitz, On War, ...
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Bush's Vietnam syndrome: the president draws a wrong lesson.(AT ...
Harry G. Summers Jr., author of On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War, that the us lost in Vietnam because the military wasn't given the ...
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As Iraq War Rages, Army Re-Examines Lessons of Vietnam
Harry Summers's history "On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War." That account argued Viet Cong guerrillas were used by the communist regime to ...
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The War in Vietnam
Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds Hammel. Firepower in Limited War Scales. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War Summers.
www2.ku.edu/ ~kunrotc/ academics/ 380/ vietnam.doc

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