Series: Routledge Advances in American History

That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognised, but rarely explored. America's Vietnam War and Its French Connection analyses the years from 1945, with the French military reconquest of Vietnam, until 1963, with the execution of the French-endorsed dictator, Ngo Dinh Diem. It demonstrates how the US should not have followed the French into...

This book assesses and evaluates the decision-making behaviour of United States presidents and their chief advisers from Roosevelt to Kennedy pertaining to China. Seeking to dispel the notion that each administration sought policy outcomes based on a rational decision-making model, Bartley highlights the contradictions in adopted presidential decision-making processes and the nature of domestic politics as playing prejudicial and debilitating...