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The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict's nature, purpose and results. This book explores the reasons for that clashand the results of it.

The relationships between the U.S. military, its supporters, and its opponents during the Vietnam War were both intense and complex. Schwab shows how the ability of the military to prosecute the war was complicated by these relationships, and by a variety of nonmilitary considerations that grew from them. Chief among these was the military's relationship to a civilian state that interpreted strategic value, risks, morality, political costs, and military and political results according to a different calculus. Second was a media that brought the warand those protesting itinto living rooms across the land.

As Schwab demonstrates, Vietnam brought together two leadership groups, each with very different operationa

A Clash of Cultures CivilMilitary Relations during the Vietnam War In War and in Peace U.S. CivilMilitary Relations

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      Publisher: ABC-CLIO
      Publication Date: 8/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780275984717, 978-0275984717
      ISBN10: 0275984710

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      The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict's nature, purpose and results. This book explores the reasons for that clashand the results of it.

      The relationships between the U.S. military, its supporters, and its opponents during the Vietnam War were both intense and complex. Schwab shows how the ability of the military to prosecute the war was complicated by these relationships, and by a variety of nonmilitary considerations that grew from them. Chief among these was the military's relationship to a civilian state that interpreted strategic value, risks, morality, political costs, and military and political results according to a different calculus. Second was a media that brought the warand those protesting itinto living rooms across the land.

      As Schwab demonstrates, Vietnam brought together two leadership groups, each with very different operationa

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