Forging a Fateful Alliance: Michigan State University and the Vietnam War

Forging A Fateful Alliance is an important study of the Vietnam War and American higher education— revealing how secret and semi-secret institutional involvement in that conflict led to public disclosures that undermined the integrity of academe. After Indochina's de facto division in 1954, Michigan State University offered South Vietnam an array of technical support as part of the "nation-building" program. This support included developing a viable national public administrative structure ...