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Dereliction of Duty (book)

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
AuthorH. R. McMaster
LanguageEnglish
SubjectVietnam War
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date
September 2, 1997
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages352
ISBN0060187956
OCLC778975095

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam is a 1997 book written by H. R. McMaster, at the time a major in the United States Army (he subsequently became National Security Advisor in 2017 after having risen in rank to lieutenant general). The book presents a case indicting former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his principal civilian and military advisers for losing the Vietnam War.[1] The book was based on McMaster's Ph.D. dissertation at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[2][3]

  1. ^ Gal Perl Finkel (22 February 2017). "US National Security Adviser Faces Challenges at Home and Abroad". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  2. ^ "National Security Adviser a two-time Carolina graduate". College of Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  3. ^ Ronald H. Spector (20 July 1997). "Cooking Up a Quagmire". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

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