‘I Made Mistakes’: Robert McNamara's Vietnam War Policy, 1960–1968
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 17427
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108234108
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108234108
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a research monograph and a “longer-form output”. It includes 342 pages, and approx. 110K words. It was researched over an eight year period between 2010 and 2018, with a further year for book production. The author has accessed 16 physical archives in the US, UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and France as well as 39 digital collections, including previously overlooked personal and state papers, classified documents and oral histories. The sources allow the author to uncover McNamara’s concerns for the Vietnam War and his loyalty to the Presidency, despite his public support for the War.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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