BARITZ : Backfire (fülszöveg)
"War is an expression of culture. It is an expression of the way a culture thinks of itself and the world. Different cultures go to war for different reasons and fight in different ways. There is an American way of war. Our Vietnam War was started and fought in ways our culture required."
Backfire is the only book to examine the myths of the American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire. It is, as historian Henry Steele Commager says, "the first full-length and scholarly account of why we got into it in the first place." It exposes our national myths: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our faith in a technology that supposedly makes us invincible.
Backfire also discusses how Vietnam has changed American culture today, and how it might change our culture in the future. It explains the successes and failures of the Washington bureaucrats during the course of the war and relates these events to the current bureaucracy. It shows how the war destroyed the traditional code of honor of many of our senior military officers and what that means to our military today.
Provocative. Confrontational. Healing. Backfire is the book we should have had twenty years ago.
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