Termination of the Vietnam war.
The purpose of this dissertation is to consider the termination of the Vietnam War, employing theories of war termination. The theories employed here are, based on Engelbrecht's argument, winners and losers theory, cost benefit theory, and second order change theory. Each theory is examined, ap...
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| author | Shoji, Tomotaka. |
| author2 | Loo, Bernard |
| author_facet | Loo, Bernard Shoji, Tomotaka. |
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| description | The purpose of this dissertation is to consider the termination of the Vietnam War, employing theories of war termination. The theories employed here are, based on Engelbrecht's argument, winners and losers theory, cost benefit theory, and second order change theory. Each theory is examined, applied to the period of the Tet offensive in 1968 as a case, because in this period the U.S. began to consider terminating the war in Vietnam. As a conclusion, the cost benefit theory is the most applicable. The winners and losers theory and the second order change theory are just partially applicable. The analysis in the paper proved that the Johnson administration carefully calculated costs and benefits of the war in terms of military, political and economic factors. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/143542020-11-01T08:14:59Z Termination of the Vietnam war. Shoji, Tomotaka. Loo, Bernard S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science The purpose of this dissertation is to consider the termination of the Vietnam War, employing theories of war termination. The theories employed here are, based on Engelbrecht's argument, winners and losers theory, cost benefit theory, and second order change theory. Each theory is examined, applied to the period of the Tet offensive in 1968 as a case, because in this period the U.S. began to consider terminating the war in Vietnam. As a conclusion, the cost benefit theory is the most applicable. The winners and losers theory and the second order change theory are just partially applicable. The analysis in the paper proved that the Johnson administration carefully calculated costs and benefits of the war in terms of military, political and economic factors. Master of Science (Strategic Studies) 2008-11-13T09:18:04Z 2008-11-13T09:18:04Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14354 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science Shoji, Tomotaka. Termination of the Vietnam war. |
| title | Termination of the Vietnam war. |
| title_full | Termination of the Vietnam war. |
| title_fullStr | Termination of the Vietnam war. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Termination of the Vietnam war. |
| title_short | Termination of the Vietnam war. |
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| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science |
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