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  • Faith and Fear

    America's Relationship with War since 1945

    by Gregory A. Daddis ...
    In this groundbreaking reflection on America's relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A. Daddis explores the deep-seated tension between faith in and fear of war that has shaped US grand strategy and helped militarize US foreign policy with great costs at home and abroad. How have Americans conceptualized and understood the "promise and peril" of war since 1945? And how have their ideas ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Withdrawal

    Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam

    by Gregory A. Daddis ...
    A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's forces demonstrated the failures of American strategy, popular history tells of a new American military commander who emerged in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • No Sure Victory

    Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War

    by Gregory A. Daddis ...
    Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory Daddis looks far deeper into the Army's techniques for measuring military success and presents a much more complicated-and ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Pulp Vietnam

    War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines

    by Gregory A. Daddis ...
    Series series Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
    In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho pulps' - boasting titles like Man's Conquest, Battle Cry, and Adventure Life - portrayed men courageously defeating their enemies in battle, ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • No Sure Victory

    Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War

    by Gregory A. Daddis ...
    Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory Daddis looks far deeper into the Army's techniques for measuring military success and presents a much more complicated-and ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

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    Faith and Fear

    America's Relationship with War since 1945

    by Gregory A. Daddis ...
    Narrated by Tom Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    How have Americans conceptualized and understood the "promise and peril" of war since 1945? And how have their ideas and attitudes led to the ever-increasing militarization of US foreign policy since the end of World War II?In a groundbreaking reassessment of the long Cold War era, historian Gregory A. Daddis argues that ever since the Second World War's fateful conclusion, faith in and fear of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Humane

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  • They Marched Into Sunlight

    War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967

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  • The Icarus Syndrome

    A History of American Hubris

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