Triumph Revisited

Andrew Wiest is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN and co-editor of America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation (Routledge).Michael J. Doidge is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is currently writing his dissertation, An Army Worth Fighting For: Doctrinal, Strategic, and Bureaucratic Transformation in the U.S. Army from 1946-1964.

• Foreword by Dennis ShowalterIntroduction: Historians and the Vietnam War by Andrew WiestSection 1. The Vietnam War in an Asian PerspectiveSection 2. Debating Triumph Forsaken as HistorySection 3. Orthodoxy and RevisionismConclusion by Michael DoidgeIndex

"[T]he book provides, in a relatively brief format, an excellent introduction to, and overview of, the major controversies and conflicts in the historiography of the early years of the Vietnam War ... Recommended" – Choice"In Triumph Revisited, Wiest and Doidge have collected Moyar's critics (and there are many) to explain why the standard explanations for the United States' failure in Vietnam-its exaggerated Cold War fears, its hopeless client, and its incoherent strategy-remain compelling. Moyar is allowed a spirited defense. The collection demonstrates the importance of debate as a way of illuminating important issues and questioning established positions." – Foreign Affairs