> Eisenhower's policy on Vietnam steadily fell apart during his the course
> of his presidency because it was based on Eisenhower's key wrong
> assumption (which became part of the foundations of the cold war
> framework, and whose falsity Vietnam so clearly laid bare): that the
> stronger party always wins a non-nuclear war. Whatever his merits as a
> general of conventional armies, he shared with most such generals a
> thorough incomprehension of the dynamics of guerrilla war.
He probably didn't understand many other things as well.:-) Eisenhower administration offered India permanent membership of the Security Council with the veto power. Taiwan was to be removed from the SC and India was to be installed. Nehru naturally refused. But tells you a lot about Eisenhower administration !
Ulhas