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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9781596985674 | 1596985674
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Perseus Distribution Services
Pub. Date: 2/23/2010
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The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failureat least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe. Yet, Phillip Jennings sets the record straight inThe Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War. In this latest "P.I.G.", Jennings shatters culturally-accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years. The Vietnam War was the most importantand successfulcampaign to defeat Communism. Without the sacrifices made and the courage displayed by our military, the world might be a different place.The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam Warreveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Why We Were in Vietnam | p. 5 |
| Vietnam 1954-1960 (Nation Building 101) | |
| The playboy and the priest | |
| Camelot It Was Not | p. 31 |
| Sideshow in Laos: Instructive history ignored | |
| Vietnam: JFK's godchild | |
| JFK's big adventure goes sour | |
| Blaming Diem | |
| Flaming Buddhists | |
| The end o... MORE | |
| LBJ's War | p. 63 |
| China Beach Blanket Bingo | |
| Earlier heroics | |
| Hey, hey, LBJ, how in the heck did you get us into this mess? | |
| Air War Vietnam | |
| Rolling (intermittent with light showers) Thunder, March 1965 to November 1968 | |
| Operation Barrel Roll, December 1964 to March 1973 | |
| Operation Steel Tiger, April 1965 to November 1968 | |
| Tet | |
| Unheralded Victory | p. 99 |
| The reason why | |
| The missing (largely successful) years | |
| Abrams, Bunker, Colby: The team that could | |
| The old order changeth | |
| The Phoenix Program | |
| The handoff to Nixon-no more Mr. Nice Guy | |
| The "secret" bombing | |
| The Cambodian "Invasion" | |
| Nixon delivers | |
| The 1972 Christmas Bombing | |
| Endgame | |
| The Anti-War Movement | p. 147 |
| "Oh, come on, were the Commies really that bad?" | |
| "Jane, you ignorant slut." (Actually Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin on Saturday Night Live, but...) | |
| Not the VFW | |
| Six great myths of the Anti-War Movement | |
| "The government of South Vietnam is corrupt and unworthy of our support" | |
| "The Vietnam War is a civil war that needs to be decided by its own people" | |
| "The American people don't support the war" | |
| "The Vietnam war is a proxy war between the capitalist West and the Communist East" | |
| "The war is immoral" | |
| "It's an unwinnable war" | |
| Coming Home | p. 167 |
| Vietnam Veteran-and proud of it | |
| The best books about the war (an impossible list) | |
| Summing up: Lessons learned | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 187 |
| Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at the Conference on Vietnam | p. 191 |
| The Politically Incorrect GuideÖ to the Pentagon Papers | p. 199 |
| The Vietnamese View | p. 213 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Notes | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 239 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Phillip Jennings served as a marine captain in both Vietnam and Laos and wrote the critically-acclaimed book, Nam-A-Rama, which received several honors. Jennings also wrote Goodbye Mexico and won the Pirates Alley Falkner Society gold medal for short fiction. In addition to his literary achievements, Jennings is a Vietnam War lecturer at the University of Washington. He earned his B.A. in Business Administration from Oklahoma State and attended graduate school in Mexico City. Jennings lives in Kirkland, Washington.
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