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　　Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of

conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only

about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing

from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still

classified) tape-recorded meetings between the highest levels of

the American military command in Vietnam, A Better War is an

insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these final

years. Through his exclusive access to authoritative materials,

award-winning historian Lewis Sorley highlights the dramatic

differences in conception, conduct, and-at least for a time-results

between the early and later years of the war. Among his most

important findings is that while the war was being lost at the

peace table and in the U.S. Congress, the soldiers were winning on

the ground. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War

sheds new light on the Vietnam War.

Prologue

　1　Inheritance

　2　New Tactics

　3　Third Offensive

　4　Intelligence

　5　Pacification

　6　Interdiction

　7　Tet 1969

　8　Drawdown

　9　Higher Hurdles

　10　Resolution 9

　11　Leaders

　12　Cambodia

　13　Victory

　14　Toward Laos

　15　Lam Son 719

　16　Aftermath

　17　Elections

　18　Soldiers

　19　Anticipation

　20　Easter Offensive

　21　Transition

　22　Cease-Fire

　23　Final Days

　Epilogue

　Acknowledgments

　Glossary

　Notes

　Selected Bibliography

　Index

MAPS

　1　Southeast Asia

　2　South Vietnam

　3　1970 Cambodian Incursion

　4　Operation Lam Son 719

　5　1972 Easter Offensive

　　A third-generation graduate of West Point, Lewis Sorley also

holds a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He has served in

the U.S. Army, on staff at the Pentagon, and later as a senior

civilian official in the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the

author of Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His

Times, an excerpt of which won the 1991 Harold Peterson Prize as

the year's best scholarly article on American military history, and

of Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of

Command. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

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　　There was a moment when the United States had the Vietnam War

wrapped up, writes military historian Lewis Sorley (biographer of

two Vietnam-era U.S. Army generals, Creighton Abrams and Harold

Johnson). "The fighting wasn't over, but the war was won," he says

in this convention-shaking book. "This achievement can probably

best be dated in late 1970." South Vietnam was ready to carry on

the battle without American ground troops and only logistical and

financial support. Sorley says that replacing General Westmoreland

with Abrams in 1968 was the key. "The tactics changed within

fifteen minutes of Abrams's taking command," remarked one officer.

Abrams switched the war aims from destruction to control; he was

less interested in counting enemy body bags than in securing South

Vietnam's villages. A Better War is unique among histories of the

Vietnam War in that it focuses on the second half of the conflict,

roughly from Abrams's arrival to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Other

volumes, such as Stanley Karnow's Vietnam and Neil Sheehan's A

Bright Shining Lie, tend to give short shrift to this period.

Sorley shows how the often-overlooked Abrams strategy nearly

succeeded--indeed, Sorley says it did succeed, at least until

political leadership in the United States let victory slip away.

Sorley cites other problems, too, such as low morale among troops

in the field, plus the harmful effects of drug abuse, racial

disharmony, and poor discipline. In the end, the mighty willpower

of Abrams and diplomatic allies Ellsworth Bunker and William Colby

was not enough. But, with its strong case that they came pretty

close to winning, A Better War is sure to spark controversy.

(Amazon.com Review - John J. Miller )

书籍介绍

Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still classified) tape-recorded meetings between the highest levels of the American military command in Vietnam, A Better War is an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these final years. Through his exclusive access to authoritative materials, award-winning historian Lewis Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in conception, conduct, and-at least for a time-results between the early and later years of the war. Among his most important findings is that while the war was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress, the soldiers were winning on the ground. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War sheds new light on the Vietnam War.