Friday, September 16, 2011
Anatomy of a War By Gabiel Kolko
A grand synthesis of the revolutionary struggle and war in Vietnam, the most controversial political event in recent American history. In one of the most comprehensive accounts of the Vietnam war ever written Gabriel Kolko, author of century of war, balances the three sides in the protracted struggle: the Communist Party, the Republic of Vietnam and the United States, and explores the underlying Political and social structures that determined the significant elements of the war- social structures that the US government chose to ignore. By focussing on the military, economic and political institutional forces that operated both in Vietnam and in the United states, Kolko gives coherence to four decades of countless events and provides a causal explanation of the Vietnam War. An essential book for anyone wanting to understand the Vietnam War and the role of the United States in the world today.
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This is vary informational. Why are you reading this book? Do you just like reading about this subject?
ReplyDeleteWhat made you choose this book? Are you interested in history in general or was there something about the Vietnam War that made you pick it up?
ReplyDeleteAre you finding the language dense? Sounds like a thorough read, I look forward to hearing more!
I like historical events mainly the war. I like this book because it talks about the whole subject from all point of view.
ReplyDeleteDo you think some of the political choices of that time made a difference in the war.
ReplyDeleteI would recommend this book to any one who wants to know more about a politicians point of view of war.
ReplyDeleteYes they made a big difference in the war. this was the first war where all main radios were connected to the pentagon. where politicians could make battle decisions well they were fighting.
ReplyDeleteWhat decisions do you think they made that were unwise or could of ended the war sooner?
ReplyDeleteone decisions that could have changed the war was reinforcements and the strategy that the ground commanders used. In lots of situations SOG and the air cavalry brigade got pinned down by the NVA. The SOG or ACB would form a perimeter in the shape circle. Reinforcing troops would come in by Huey and they have to land in a flat area usually a field because of that. Half of the reinforcements would be killed by NVA sniper fire which was a wast of time, gas and men. They would stay in a circle perimeter making it hard to maintain a defined fire line which usually ended with a quarter of all the troops retreating.
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