Robert William Komer has a peculiar standing within the historical literature on Washingtons Cold War. 17042013 Robert Blowtorch Komer.
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Blowtorch komer. Working with other high-ranking officials in the second half of 1966 Komer formulated a policy for gaining the initiative against the Viet Cong under the overall auspices of Military Assistance Command Vietnam commanded by General William Westmoreland. Lodge had likened Komers demands for progress to having a blow-torch aimed at the seat of ones pants and Komer reveled in the appellation. Pacification Komer told Johnson would critically depend on whether we can set up an at least marginally effective Government of South Vietnam.
22032014 Johnson asked Komer to remain on the NSC staff following the Kennedy assassination. Jones book also provides an insiders view into Komer. -- ANDREW PRESTON author of The War Council.
During the Vietnam War heading Civil Operations and. Komer later worked with Carter. Robert Komer Vietnam and American Cold War Strategy by Frank Leith Jones is the first biography ever written about the Cold War national security policy and strategy adviser to three presidents.
Robert Komer Vietnam and American Cold War Strategy Frank Leith Jones offers a well-researched incisive compelling interpretation of a critical yet often-overlooked Cold War policymaker. Naval Institute Press 2013 Robert W. 07112013 Frank Leith Jones.
01062006 Komer who died in 2001 was. Komer meeting with President Lyndon Johnson. He emerges forcefully in histories.
Robert Komer Vietnam and American Cold War Strategy Annapolis Maryland. Robert Komer Vietnam and American Cold War Strategy by. Komer was known as Blowtorch Bob a name given to him by Henry Cabot Lodge the American ambassador in South Vietnam who had said in so many words that arguing with.
Grand strategy during the Cold War and a model for scholars seeking to tease out the larger significance of individual lives in the biographical formatArmy HistoryBlowtorch is valuable for those interested in counterinsurgency aspiring strategists and Cold War historians. History has not been kind to Robert Komer. 12042000 During the war and after Mr.
As a Cold War national security policy and strategy adviser to three presidents Komer was one. 4 reviews History has not been kind to Robert Komer a casualty of bad historical analysis and inaccurate information. Komer February 23 1922 - April 9 2000 was a key figure in the pacification effort to win South Vietnamese hearts and minds.
11092013 Frank Leith Jones Blowtorch. Joness book covers Komers early life goes on to look at his work as a National Security Council staff member during the Kennedy administration and then bores in on his impact on the Vietnam War where he was a staunch exponent of hearts and minds pacification programs. Wonderfully written and impressively researched Blowtorch not only sheds new light on Komer and Vietnam it is an incisive and original history of Americas grand strategy in the Cold War.
McGeorge Bundy the NSC and Vietnam. 03022017 Komer known as Blowtorch for his abrasive personality and disdain for bureaucratic foot dragging made several trips to Vietnam in 1966 and reported his findings to the president. Can-do bureaucrat known for relentlessly browbeating others into action.
15032013 Blowtorch is a fine addition to the historiography of US. Roberto DAubuisson Arrieta 23 August 1943 20 February 1992 was a far-right Salvadoran soldier politician and death squad leader. 18022013 Known as Blowtorch for his abrasive personality and disdain for bureaucratic foot dragging Komer came to be seen as the right person for managing that effort and in 1968 was rewarded with an ambassadorship to Turkey.
A Cold War national security policy and strategy adviser to three presidents Komer was one of the. A legendary figure in the defense communityirreverent hard-charging acerbic a. Joness book covers Komers early life goes on to look at his work as a National Security Council staff member during the Kennedy administration and then bores in on his impact on the Vietnam War where he was a staunch exponent of hearts and minds pacification programs.
Robert William Blowtorch Bob. 06112020 Komer had already earned the moniker Blowtorch from Ambassador Lodge. Komer later worked with Carter.
He was a candidate for President in 1984 losing in the second. Komer is probably best remembered today as the principal architect of the Johnson administrations pacification campaign in South Vietnam the so-called other war. In 1981 he co-founded and became the first leader of the Nationalist Republican Alliance ARENA and served as President of El Salvadors Constituent Assembly from 1982 to 1983.
