CIA Man Thought He Had Winning Formula

Could Ed Lansdale have won the Vietnam War if U.S. leaders had just listened to him and followed his advice? That’s the intriguing question that Max Boot’s nearly 800-page biography raises about one of the war’s most controversial and fascinating figures. And that question seems genuine—not publicity-hyping hyperbole. Lansdale, an Air Force colonel attached to …

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