Book contents
- Less Than Victory
- Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
- Less Than Victory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: “Evidence of Loyalty”
- 1 “I Am a Roman Catholic”: 1950–1959
- 2 “We Have a Catholic President, Too”: 1960–1963
- 3 “The Right Moral Position”: January 1964–June 1965
- 4 “It Must Be Nice to Be That Sure”: July 1965–December 1966
- 5 “We Can and Must Debate”: January 1967–April 1968
- 6 “Wearing a Little Thin”: May 1968–March 1970
- 7 “Outweighed by the Destruction”: April 1970–December 1971
- 8 “It Was Not That Kind of War”: January 1972–February 1973
- Epilogue: “We Speak as Moral Teachers”
- Index
Epilogue: “We Speak as Moral Teachers”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2025
Book contents
- Less Than Victory
- Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
- Less Than Victory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: “Evidence of Loyalty”
- 1 “I Am a Roman Catholic”: 1950–1959
- 2 “We Have a Catholic President, Too”: 1960–1963
- 3 “The Right Moral Position”: January 1964–June 1965
- 4 “It Must Be Nice to Be That Sure”: July 1965–December 1966
- 5 “We Can and Must Debate”: January 1967–April 1968
- 6 “Wearing a Little Thin”: May 1968–March 1970
- 7 “Outweighed by the Destruction”: April 1970–December 1971
- 8 “It Was Not That Kind of War”: January 1972–February 1973
- Epilogue: “We Speak as Moral Teachers”
- Index
Summary
Yet the war was not over, and as Jussi Hanhimӓki notes, “the Americans left behind a situation ripe for further turmoil rather than a tentative peace.” Yet, despite confident predictions by antiwar activists that the Saigon regime would collapse as soon as the final American forces were gone, the war went on for another two years. Saigon finally fell on April 30, 1975. In the end, the Republic of Vietnam “died not from an economic collapse or internal revolution but from military defeat.”
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