Jeffrey Race , living in Asia since , is a retired American military officer, a consultant to private firms and public bodies, and volunteer with many international charities. Books Journals. Disciplines History Military History. About the Book This landmark study of the Vietnamese conflict, examined through the lens of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements in the rural province of Long An up until American intervention in the area, offers a human, balanced, penetrating account of war.
Described as a "military classic", Race attempted to answer the question of why one side in the Vietnam War could better motivate its followers than the other. This landmark study of the Vietnamese conflict, examined through the lens of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements in the rural province of Long An up until American intervention in the area, offers a human, balanced, penetrating account of war. Two new forewords by Robert K. A new end chapter offers previously unpublished scholarship on the conflict.
Jeffrey Race , living in Asia since , is a retired American military officer, a consultant to private firms and public bodies, and volunteer with many international charities. Books Digital Products Journals. Your email address will not be published. Now being reprinted in an updated and expanded edition, War Comes to Long An was first published in and was the book I longed to buy in as the most junior lieutenant in Vietnam—but could nowhere find. Thereby hangs this tale of my adventures then in Vietnam and since elsewhere—a tale with implications for the creative process in academic writing, for the study of institutional change and of the learning disabilities of military institutions, and for priorities in public policy-making in America and elsewhere.
Birthing War Comes to Long An changed my life. I had no inkling when I began the project with trepidation in mid at the age of 24—using my own funds to satisfy my private curiosity—how it would change both my life and the lives of so many others. Perhaps these notes on the creation of that work may inspire others so inclined to dare the same creative act that summoned me, while at the same time illuminating some issues of public policy.
In these pages I beg to convey the private side of that public act, inseparable from the process of creation and from what came next.
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