Vietnamization: Politics, Strategy, Legacy [Hardcover]

When he took office in 1969, the term that Richard Nixon embraced to describe his plan for ending the American war in Vietnam was Vietnamization, the process of withdrawing US troops and turning over responsibility for the war to the South Vietnamese government. The concept had far reaching implications, both for understanding Nixons actions and for shaping U.S. military thinking years after Washingtons failure to ensure the survival of its client state in South Vietnam. In this book, Vietnam War expert David L. Anderson explores the political and strategic implications and assesses its continuing, significant impact on American post-Vietnam foreign policy.David L. Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and Professor of History Emeritus at California State University, Monterey Bay. He is the author of 11 books, including The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (2002) and The Columbia History of the Vietnam War (2011), both CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles.

An outstanding blend of memoir and historical research from one of the nations leading scholars on the American war in Vietnam. David Anderson had produced a one-of-a-kind book on Nixons Vietnamization policy that initiated the withdrawal of US forces from Southeast Asia. It is an immensely insightful read that is both personal and fair, a work that will become indispensable for understanding why and how the United States departed from the longest, most unsatisfactory conflict of the Cold War era. Gregory A. Daddis, San Diego State University, author of Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam

Based on recently declassified records, the latest scholarship, and his own experience serving in Vietnam, David Andersons Vietnamization, is an original and welcome study of President Richard Nixons Vietnam policy and how the Vietnam War ended. Anderson analysis of Nixons policy demonstrates that Vietnamization did notlƒ>