 | Hannah Arendt - 1972 - Страниц: 256
...different "scenario" had to be produced. John T. McNaughton's much-quoted enumeration of US aims in 1965, "70%— To avoid a humiliating US defeat (to...our reputation as a guarantor). 20%— To keep SVN [South Vietnam] (and the adjacent) territory from Chinese hands. io%— To permit the people of SVN... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs - 1974 - Страниц: 136
...defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor)." McNaughton also stated that only "10%" of our "aims" were to "permit the people of SVN to enjoy a better, freer way of life." Of all the previous untruths, however, none is more absurd than Mr. Kissinger's. The notion that the... | |
 | Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein - 1985 - Страниц: 314
...public consumption. As an illustration, at one point John McNaughton summarized US aims in Vietnam as "70% — to avoid a humiliating US defeat (to our...reputation as a guarantor). 20% — to keep SVN (and the adjacent) territory from Chinese hands. 10% — to permit the people of SVN to enjoy a better,... | |
 | L. Freedman - 2003 - Страниц: 592
...of Defense John McNaughton's 1965 memorandum to Robert McNamara on US aims in Vietnam: 70 per cent -To avoid a humiliating US defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor). 20 per cent - To keep SVN (and the adjacent) territory from Chinese hands. 10 per cent - To permit the... | |
 | Edward S. Herman - 1995 - Страниц: 292
...avoid a humiliating US defeat..."; 20 percent to keeping South Vietnam out of Chinese hands; 10 percent "to permit the people of SVN to enjoy a better, freer way of life." US Defense Dept., The Pentagon Papers, Gravel Ed., vol. 3, pp. 348-49. 7. A speech before the graduating... | |
 | Richard Crockatt - 1995 - Страниц: 454
...70% - To avoid a humiliating US defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor). 20% - To keep SVN (and the adjacent) territory from Chinese hands. 10% - To permit...people of SVN to enjoy a better, freer way of life. (Pentagon Papers 1971: 432) Even if one accepts that this represents the opinion of only one official... | |
 | Blema S. Steinberg - 1996 - Страниц: 412
...draft memorandum for McNamara that began wiüi a discussion of US aims. He listed them as follows: 70% - To avoid a humiliating US defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor) . 20% - To keep SVN (and the adjacent) territory from Chinese hands. 10% - To permit the people of SVN to enjoy a better, freer... | |
 | Robert Buzzanco - 1996 - Страниц: 404
...guarantor)"; 20 percent was to keep the RVN out of "Chinese hands"; while only the remaining 10 percent was to "permit the people of SVN to enjoy a better, freer way of life."48 McNaughton's views, George McT. Kahin explains, were typical of the Johnson administration's... | |
 | H. R. McMaster - 1998 - Страниц: 484
...weighting each objective by percentage: 70% — To avoid a humiliating US defeat (to our reputation as guarantor). 20% — To keep SVN (and then adjacent)...people of SVN to enjoy a better, freer way of life. ALSO — To emerge from crisis without unacceptable taint from methods used. NOT — To "help a friend,"... | |
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Proposed Course of Action re Vietnam" for his immediate chief, Robert McNamara. McNaughton's formulation included the following.4 US aims: 70* —to avoid a humiliating US defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor). 
