No Lessons Learned: Vietnam The Fighting, The Dying, A Legacy Replayed in the Middle East - Softcover

Bonadeo, Alfredo

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798886403527

Verlag: Ewings Publishing LLC, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

While the book rests on the backbone of the Vietnam experience, it aspires to go beyond the confines of that particular war and lead the reader to question an American foreign policy that has, especially since 2001, been militarily driven. The harm done to American and allied soldiers and to the indigent peoples and societies of the countries the U.S. has so thoughtlessly invaded has secured no advantage to the U.S. or any other country. The author delves into the human physical and psychological cost of war and implicitly makes the case for diplomacy over force, restraint, and modesty over hubris. He establishes the importance of cause to the combatant's ability to fight winningly and to remain psychologically sound in battle and afterward. It is especially relevant today because it connects the human and societal consequences of the decisions made in and around that war with the recent squandered ventures in the Middle East.

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Alfredo Bonadeo was born in Volpedo (Italy), emigrated to the United States where he graduated in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Professor of Italian language and literature at the Università of California, Santa Barbara (1969-1994). Has published: Corruption, Conflict and Power in the Works and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli; Mark of the Beast. Death and Degradation in the Literature of the Great War; D'Annunzio and the Great War; Leopardi e la religione della vita.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ewings Publishing LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798886403527
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174
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