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Blowtorch : Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War strategy

Summary: History has not been kind to Robert Komer, a casualty of bad historical analysis and inaccurate information. A Cold War national security policy and strategy adviser to three presidents, Komer was one of the most influential national security professionals of the era. The book begins with a review of his early life that helped shape his worldview. It then examines Komer's influence as a National Security Council staff member during the Kennedy administration, where he helped set its activist course regarding the Third World. Upon Kennedy's death, Lyndon Johnson named Komer his?point ma.

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ISBN: 1612512291
ISBN: 9781612512297
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Toward the New Frontier -- A man of proper ambition -- Pragmatic new frontiersman -- Komer's war -- "Our India enterprise" -- Lyndon Johnson's man -- Pacification czar -- A new thrust to pacification -- In country -- Taking off -- The year of the monkey -- The old fox gets fired -- Revival and departure -- A new transatlantic bargain -- Pentagon policymaker -- The sin of unilateralism -- The wisdom of hindsight: Vietnam reassessed -- Conclusion.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.