Dynamics of the Vietnam war: a quantitative analysis and predictive computer simulation
Subjects (LCSH):
Vietnam War, 1961-1975Digital computer simulation
Multivariate analysis -- Data processing
Issue Date:
1974Metadata
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The Ohio State University PressDescription:
(print) xv, 254 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Contents:
Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction xiii -- Ch. 1 Theories Underlying Hawk and Dove Policy Models 3 -- Ch. 2 Data 18 -- Ch. 3 Methods of Analysis 29 -- Ch. 4 Tests of Crucial Hypotheses and Assumptions of U.S. Policy-makers about the Vietnam War 39 -- Ch. 5 Empirical Patterns of Interaction in the Escalation of the War 57 -- Ch. 6 Computer Simulation Predictions of the Escalation of the War 78 -- Ch. 7 Simulation Exercises of Alternative Hawk and Dove Policies 106 -- Ch. 8 The Vietnam War from the 1968 Tet Offensive to the 1970 Cambodian Invasion 128 -- Ch. 9 The Paradox of Waging War to Achieve Power 149 -- Ch. 10 U.S. Policy in Vietnam : Calculated or Miscalculated? 171 -- Ch. 11 Afterword : The 1973 Cease-Fire Agreement 186 -- Appendix A : Content Analysis of Communications 199 -- Appendix B : Components of the Eight Communications Indices 207 -- Appendix C : Time Plots of Composite Indices and Individual Variables 211 -- Bibliography 247 -- Index 251
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BookISBN:
0814201903 (print)Other Identifiers:
OCLC #724415 (print)LCCN 73017351 (print)
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