Vietnam War -Political Interference My recently published fictional historical novel, RECALL, documents countless episodes of political interference in military affairs. To name a couple, DC civilian micromanagement imposing limiting rules of engagement and the pursuit of ill-advised strategies evolving from political considerations, not military deliberations in many cases. The conduct of the war was often […]
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Vietnam: The Cultural Journey that Followed
The Cultural Journey Post-Vietnam “War is a weapon, use it wisely,” historian Bernard Lewis cautioned a decade ago in reference to the Middle East conflicts. “In 1940 we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues… It is different today.We don’t know who we are, we […]
Vietnam – The Shadow Wars
The Shadow Wars of Vietnam The Vietnam war was an asymmetrical war, commonly referred to as a guerilla war. For those unfamiliar, it usually involved platoon or company size conflicts, not huge battles. The combat basically consisted of sporadic encounters with the Viet Cong in juggles, rain forests and rice paddies, not the large WWII […]