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Jul 16, 2017 · Orthodox v. Revisionist Schools: Marilyn Young’s The Vietnam Wars (1991) and Guenter Lewy’s America in Vietnam (1978) The orthodox school of Vietnam War history replaces the complexity of revolutionary, international, and ideological war, to a chronology of America’s inevitable defeat in Vietnam.
As George Herring, the author ofa major study of the Vietnam War concludes, "Regard less of his ideology, Ho by 1950 had captured the standard of Vietnamese nationalism, and by supporting France, ... the United States was attaching itself to a losing cause."
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America in Vietnam (1978), by Guenter Lewy, is an example of historical revisionism that differs much from the popular view of the U.S. in the Vietnam War (1955–75) for which the author was criticized and supported for belonging to the revisionist school on the history of the Vietnam War.
Apr 11, 2018 · In America in Vietnam, the first comprehensive revisionist account of the war, political scientist Guenter Lewy contended that the war was winnable if the United States had only prioritized counterinsurgency operations. Lewy also blamed antiwar activists for creating the myth that the United States was inevitably doomed by the complexities of ...
These scholars, post-revisionists, do not even admit defeat—arguing that the United States won the war by late 1970. The goal of this paper is to give insight on orthodox, revisionist, and post-revisionist views.
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Here, the classic revisionist thesis proposed by Lewis B. Sorley in A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam (1999) argues that the US military fought with one arm tied behind their back and that the war could have been won.
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The early availability of a considerable body of documentation on U.S. policymaking in Washington and warmaking in Vietnam, together with the intensity of controversies stirred by the war, help to account for this extensive writing.
