| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War. By James H. Will-banks. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xii, 377 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-13315.)

After the Tet Offensive of 1968, Gen. Creighton Abrams was given the unenviable task of disengaging American forces from the Republic of Vietnam without compromising the security of that country. The Nixon administration expected him to accomplish this through Vietnamization, that is, the turning of a politically weak and militarily dependent client-state into an independent regime whose armed forces could defend their nation after American combat forces were withdrawn. Abrams's assessment of the situation was that, even if such a goal were attainable, it would take a decade or more to achieve, time that the allied forces in Vietnam did not have. Once the American people sensed the end of this costly and unpopular war, they would demand that the pace of troop withdrawal be accelerated and that the level of assistance be reduced, regardless of the political situation in the Republic of Vietnam or the state of its armed forces.

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