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Book Review
Comparative/World
| Peter Busch. All the Way with JFK? Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 240. $45.00.
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| In this provocative and well-researched study, Peter Busch draws from archival materials in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States to show that British involvement in Vietnam did not end with the French collapse at Dienbienphu and the ongoing Geneva Conference in 1954. The British co-chaired the International Commission for Supervision and Control (ICC), joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), established the British Advisory Mission (BRIAM) in Saigon, advocated a counterinsurgency program based on its experiences in Malaya, and supported U.S. policies toward the Ngo Dinh Diem regime—including the selective economic pressures that British counterinsurgency expert Robert Thompson correctly termed a "straight invitation to a coup" (p. 164). |
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