1. THE POLITICS OF THE PENTAGON PAPERS.
- Author
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Waskow, Arthur I.
- Subjects
VIETNAM War, 1961-1975 ,VIETNAMESE history, 1945-1975 ,HISTORY of war ,FEDERAL government ,GOVERNMENT policy ,VIETNAMESE people - Abstract
The article explores the Affair of the Pentagon Papers concerning the "dead issue" of the Vietnam War. It asserted that the Papers bear reach evidence that parts of the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) felt that economic and political pressures at home were preventing the U.S. government from taking the steps that were physically within its powers, to smash the rising Vietnamese resistance. It stated that the writing of an internal history of the war could expose the foolishness of the State Department and the uniformed military while avoiding any head-on attack upon existing policy.
- Published
- 1972
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