Author: Mcnamara, Robert S.
Reissue; Paperback
512 pages
Published: June 1920
The Perseus Books Group
ISBN: 1891620878

In this groundbreaking study, Robert McNamara delves into the decisions and mistakes made both by him and his North Vietnamese counterparts. Drawing on a series of unprecedented meetings with his former enemy, McNamara confronts the most difficult questions: Why did the Vietnam War happen? How could it have been stopped? Did millions of people need to lose their lives? Was it a senseless war?Did the Vietnam War have to happen? And why couldn't it have happened earlier? Using Vietnamese and Chinese documents, many never before made public, McNamara reveals both American and Vietnamese blunders, and points out ways in which such mistakes can be avoided in the future.