Jumat, 14 April 2017

Strategy for Failure: America’s War in Vietnam

 “Refighting the last war” ensured U.S. defeat. On April 30, 1975, Saigon, capital of the U.S.-backed Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), fell to the invading military forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (communist North Vietnam), two years after the  withdrawal of American troops in the wake of the January 1973 Paris Peace Accords. America’s …

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