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Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam
Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter argues that the U.S became involved in the Vietnam War as a step to achieve global dominance. In his new book, "Perils of Dominance," Mr. Porter says that top advisers for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson realized by the mid-1950s that the U.S. had a decisive power advantage vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and pushed for the U.S. to take advantage of it. The author highlights the similarities between the motives behind U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the current occupation of Iraq. This event was hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.

Gareth Porter is the author of "Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism" and "A Peace Denied." He is an independent scholar on issues of war and peace and a historian of the Vietnam conflict. From 1974 through 1976, he was co-director of the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, D.C.

Publisher: University of California Press 2120 Berkeley Way Berkeley, CA 94704

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1. Presidents were driven by tragic mis perception

of the threat of Communism in south Vietnam.