From people's war to people's rule : insurgency, intervention, and the lessons of Vietnam /
Timothy Lomperis argues that the lessons of American involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by itself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven other cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during the Cold War era: China, In...
| Основен автор: | Lomperis, Timothy J., 1947- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
1996.
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From people's war to people's rule. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction. From ghost to lesson
- On the business of lessons
- Legitimacy, insurgency, and the international context of the Vietnam War
- Analytical framework of legitimacy, insurgency, and intervention
- Historical setting: the earthly struggle for heaven's mandate
- Framework analysis: the war without a lesson?
- China, 1920-1949: the long march to liberation
- Greece, 1941-1949: three rounds to Albania
- The Philippines, 1946-1956: liberation deflected
- Malaya, 1948-1960: the unmaking of an insurgency
- Cambodia's "Autogenocide" and the disappearance of Laos, 1949-1975
- Findings from the prism and an application: Sendero Luminoso of Peru
- Conclusion. The new era: Wilson's triumph over Lenin
- Appendix 1. Literatures of the framework
- Appendix 2. A tale of two strategies: an alternative explanation
- Appendix 3. Assumptions, thematic questions, and propositions.