Perils of Dominance - Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam (Electronic book text)

"This will be the most important contribution to our understanding of the war in Vietnam since the "Pentagon Papers. "I am not exaggerating or speaking for effect. Porter challenges aby and large successfullyamost of the accepted views, especially on the importance of the domino theory, the belief that U. S. policy was driven by a perception of its weakness on the world scene, and the belligerence of Johnson and, to a lesser extent, Kennedy."aRobert Jervis, author of "American Foreign Policy in a New Era "