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GIBSON, JAMES WILLIAM The perfect war : technowar in Vietnam.
Boston Atlantic Monthly Press 1986 0871130637 / 9780871130631 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Good dust jacket
523 pages, cloth, dj, very good. 1st edition. From the dj: Technowar, as James William Gibson defines it, was the war the United States fought and lost in Vietnam - a concept in which warfare was viewed as a production system; the officer corps were the managers; the enlisted men, the workers; the product - enemy deaths. On the military assembly line careers rose or fell according to the size of the body count, whether the dead were women and children or soldiers. The rule was: 'If it's dead and it's Vietnamese, it's V.C.' Gibson shows that the enemy, as Washington conceived it, was not insurgent guerrillas, but a technically advanced enemy, the mirror reflection of ourselves. The leaders of the American military-industrial complex existed in a closed, self-referential universe. They believed their own fictions till the end. As events would demonstrate, Technowar was a system inapplicable to the actual political and military strategies used by revolutionary forces. In this landmark work, Gibson is the first historian to examine the Vietnam War from this unique perspective - the first to show how and why U.S. military records were consistently falsified and how the internal contradictions of the U.S. military led to the demoralization and revolt of combat troops; the first to authoritatively attack both schools of conventional wisdom: the liberal conception that the war was the result of 'mistakes' by leaders and the conservative view that the United States lost the war because of 'self-imposed restraints.' Drawing upon official government papers as well as personal accounts from low-level soldiers, Gibson documents the failure of Technowar in Vietnam, and argues persuasively that the lessons we should have learned there have been ignored by the political and military establishments that continue to espouse it today. ; 523 pages
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GIBSON, JAMES WILLIAM The perfect war : technowar in Vietnam.
Boston Atlantic Monthly Press 1986 0871130637 / 9780871130631 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
523 pages, cloth, dj, very good. 1st edition. From the dj: Technowar, as James William Gibson defines it, was the war the United States fought and lost in Vietnam - a concept in which warfare was viewed as a production system; the officer corps were the managers; the enlisted men, the workers; the product - enemy deaths. On the military assembly line careers rose or fell according to the size of the body count, whether the dead were women and children or soldiers. The rule was: 'If it's dead and it's Vietnamese, it's V.C.' Gibson shows that the enemy, as Washington conceived it, was not insurgent guerrillas, but a technically advanced enemy, the mirror reflection of ourselves. The leaders of the American military-industrial complex existed in a closed, self-referential universe. They believed their own fictions till the end. As events would demonstrate, Technowar was a system inapplicable to the actual political and military strategies used by revolutionary forces. In this landmark work, Gibson is the first historian to examine the Vietnam War from this unique perspective - the first to show how and why U.S. military records were consistently falsified and how the internal contradictions of the U.S. military led to the demoralization and revolt of combat troops; the first to authoritatively attack both schools of conventional wisdom: the liberal conception that the war was the result of 'mistakes' by leaders and the conservative view that the United States lost the war because of 'self-imposed restraints.' Drawing upon official government papers as well as personal accounts from low-level soldiers, Gibson documents the failure of Technowar in Vietnam, and argues persuasively that the lessons we should have learned there have been ignored by the political and military establishments that continue to espouse it today. CHS7; 523 pages
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