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Author Pat Proctor talks about Containment and Credibility at AUSA
16 March 2017

Author Pat Proctor talked about his third book, Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War, with the Henry Leavenworth chapter of the Association of the United States Army at Leavenworth, Kansas.

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Containment and Credibility reviewed in Library Journal
 5 November 2016

The Library Journal just published a review of Pat Proctor's third book, Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War in its October 1 edition. Here's an excerpt:

“Military historians will find in this work a fresh take on the Vietnam War, as well as its warnings for current conflicts.”

Containment and Credibility reviewed in Publishers Weekly
 14 October 2016

Publisher Weekly just published a review of Pat Proctor's third book, Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War. Here's an excerpt:

“What is new [in Containment and Credibility] is Proctor’s sound conclusion that the Vietnam War containment and credibility framework has had a lasting influence on U.S. foreign policy. Today’s 'War on Terror,' he says, is still being fought with a Cold War-era foreign policy ideology, which could be a recipe for 'a century of costly and fruitless warfare across the globe.'”

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Jacket cover released
1 August 2016

Carrel Books, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, just released the book cover for, Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War.

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Containment and Credibility delayed
15 July 2016

Carrel Books, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, announced that the publication of Pat Proctor's latest book, Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War is delayed until November 2016 to allow reviewers time to publish reviews of the book in advance of its release.

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Skyhorse Publishing deal to publish Containment and Credibility
10 August 2015

“In the shadow of yet another war taking shape in the Middle East—this time against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—it is vitally important to understand how the American public is convinced by its leaders to go to war. In Iraq, in 2003, the Bush administration used a simplistic ideology (the War on Terrorism) and lies and half-truths (Saddam Hussein’s supposed nuclear program) to convince the overwhelming majority of Americans to support the disastrous invasion of Iraq. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson used this same pattern—a simplistic ideology (Cold War containment) and lies and half-truths (the supposed attacks by North Vietnam against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin)—to convince the American people to fight a war in South Vietnam that eventually cost over 50,000 American lives. During the Vietnam War, however, the President’s lies and half-truths ultimately doomed his war policy”

Carrel Books, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, will publish Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War in summer 2016.

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