09643. CONTAINMENT, COMMITMENT AND LIMITED WAR: THE FAILURE OF AMERICAN MILITARY STRATEGY IN VIETNAM. Considers the American defeat in Vietnam in light of the failure of superior U.S. military technology and firepower to win a "war from above" in which vast resources and enormous manpower were committed to a piecemeal approach instead of the total war of traditional military strategy. 12 pages, 24 footnotes in text, 11 bibliographic sources.