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Release Year
1992
Book Title
Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietna...
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9780691025353
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691025355
ISBN-13
9780691025353
eBay Product ID (ePID)
244281

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Analogies at War : Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Subject
Military / General, Military / Vietnam War, International Relations / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Author
Yuen Foong Khong
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
Khong's interviews and newly declassified documents make a compelling case the American decision-makers in 1965 used historical analogies not only to justify decisions but to make them, most notably in the process of rejecting options., "Khong's interviews and newly declassified documents make a compelling case the American decision-makers in 1965 used historical analogies not only to justify decisions but to make them, most notably in the process of rejecting options." -- Foreign Affairs, Khong's interviews and newly declassified documents make a compelling case the American decision-makers in 1965 used historical analogies not only to justify decisions but to make them, most notably in the process of rejecting options. -- Foreign Affairs, "Khong's interviews and newly declassified documents make a compelling case the American decision-makers in 1965 used historical analogies not only to justify decisions but to make them, most notably in the process of rejecting options."-- Foreign Affairs
Illustrated
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Table Of Content
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Pt. I The Argument Ch. 1 Analogical Reasoning in Foreign Affairs: Two Views 3 Ch. 2 The AE Framework 19 Ch. 3 America's Vietnam Options 47 Pt. II The Cases Ch. 4 Containment, Analogies, and the Pre-1965 Vietnam Decisions 71 Ch. 5 Korea 97 Ch. 6 Dien Bien Phu 148 Ch. 7 Munich and the 1930s 174 Pt. III The Implications Ch. 8 The Psychology of Analogical Reasoning 209 Ch. 9 Conclusion 251 Bibliography 265 Index 279
Synopsis
From WWI to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the 'lessons of history' as they contemplated taking their nation to war. This work argues that leaders use analogies not merely to justify policies but also to perform specific cognitive and information-processing tasks essential to political decision-making., From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the "lessons of history" as they contemplated taking their nation to war. Do these historical analogies actually shape policy, or are they primarily tools of political justification? Yuen Foong Khong argues that leaders use analogies not merely to justify policies but also to perform specific cognitive and information-processing tasks essential to political decision-making. Khong identifies what these tasks are and shows how they can be used to explain the U.S. decision to intervene in Vietnam. Relying on interviews with senior officials and on recently declassified documents, the author demonstrates with a precision not attained by previous studies that the three most important analogies of the Vietnam era--Korea, Munich, and Dien Bien Phu--can account for America's Vietnam choices. A special contribution is the author's use of cognitive social psychology to support his argument about how humans analogize and to explain why policymakers often use analogies poorly., From World War 1 to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the "lessons of history" as they contemplated taking their nation to war. Do these historical analogies actually shape policy, or are they primarily tools of political justification? Yuen Foong Khong argues that leaders use analogies not merely to justify policies but also to perform specific cognitive and information-processing tasks essential to political decision-making. Khong identifies what these tasks are and shows how they can be used to explain the U.S. decision to intervene in Vietnam. Relying on interviews with senior officials and on recently declassified documents, the author demonstrates with a precision not attained by previous studies that the three most important analogies of the Vietnam era - Korea, Munich and Dien Bien Phu - can account for America's Vietnam choices. A special contribution is the author's use of cognitive social psychology to support his argument about how humans analogize and to explain why policymakers often use analogies poorly.
LC Classification Number
DS558.K55

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