Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War

"""Professor Moise has combined his previous meticulous research with signals intelligence from the National Security Agency, to produce the final, detailed work of what did occur and did NOT occur that night in the Gulf of Tonkin. This work definitively shows how the Johnson administration accepted the story of an attack despite contradictory intelligence. And it establishes the central role of the Gulf of Tonkin in the eventual full-scale American intervention in the Vietnam conflict."" --Robert J Hanyok, Retired Department of Defense historian and author of Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT in the Indochina War, 1945-1975 ""This work is the definitive history of the events in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 that propelled the United States into the long, bloody, and devastating war in Southeast Asia. The strength of the work is the author's comprehensive, balanced, and insightful analysis of thousands of items of once highly classified material and interviews with scores of Americans and Vietnamese on both sides connected to the pivotal episode. This history should be considered a starting point for any serious study of the early months of the Vietnam War."" --Edward J. Marolda, author, Combat at Close Quarters: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy in the Vietnam War (Naval Institute Press) and former Director of Naval History (Acting), Naval Historical Center"