The Dangerous Doctrine: National Security and U.S. Foreign Policy by Saul Landau

Author:Saul Landau [Landau, Saul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367291143
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Richard Barnet, Intervention and Revolution (New York: World Publishing, 1968), pp. 181-184.

2. Archimedes Patti, Why Vietnam? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), pp. 377-449.

3. Bernard Fall, Last Reflections on a War: Last Comments on Vietnam (New York: Doubleday, 1967), p. 85.

4. For more on Operation Vulture, the plan to "rescue" the French, see Barnet, Intervention and Revolution, p. 191; Gabriel Kolko, Anatomy of a War (New York: Pantheon, 1985), p. 82; and Peter Hayes, Lyuba Zarsky, and Walden Bello, An American Lake: Nuclear Peril in the Pacific (New York: Penguin, 1986), p. 55.

5. See Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake (Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1972), pp. 82-86.

6. For an account of the various stage-managed South Vietnamese elections in the 1960s, as well as ballots in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and elsewhere, see Frank Brodhead and Edward Herman, Demonstration Elections (Boston: South End Press, 1984), pp. 55-91.

7. President Kennedy's treasury secretary, Douglas Dillon, captured the essence of Kennedy's liberalism in a speech at the Harvard Business School on June 6, 1964, in which Dillon noted that the rate of increase in arms and space spending and interest on the national debt was double that of the Eisenhower administration, while spending on all other categories rose by "one third less than the comparable increase during the earlier fouryear period." Quoted by Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy, "The Kennedy-Johnson Boom," in Marvin Gettleman and David Mermelstein, eds., The Great Society Reader (New York: Vintage Books, 1967), p. 102.

8. "The Kennedy Administration's obsession with this hairy-chested form of warfare contributed to a fatal over-estimate of what the United States could hope to achieve in Southeast Asia." Godfrey Hodgson, "Disorder Within, Disorder Without," in Sanford Ungar, ed., Estrangement: America and the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 142.

9. Principled liberals in foreign policy, such as Chester Bowles, were dismissed when they raised questions about the prudence of aggressive policies in the Third World. Those who believed that the principles offered to support the just struggle of blacks at home also should have some application abroad and that Third World people merited treatment in contexts other than East versus West had no place in the Kennedy foreign policy scheme.

10. See Barnet, Intervention and Revolution, pp. 209-210; and chapters by Jonathan Mirsky and Stephen Stonefield, Gareth Porter, Fred Branfman, and Wilfred Burchett in Nina S. Adams and Alfred W. McCoy, eds., Laos: War and Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1970).

11. There is some indication that Castro may not have agreed with Khrushchev's method of bargaining directly with Kennedy, which excluded Cuba, the very subject of the affair.

12. On Kennedy's role in deposing Diem, see David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest; and U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, 94th Cong., 1st sess., November 20, 1975, pp. 217-224.

13. See Warren Hinckle and William W. Turner, The Fish Is Red: The Story of the Secret War Against Castro (New York: Harper and Row, 1981).

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