Vietnam draft Archives - R. Lawson Author https://rlawsonauthor.com/tag/vietnam-draft/ Intelligent Thrillers Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:12:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 55015724 The Vietnam War Revisited- Part XV – No Way Out https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xv-no-way-out/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xv-no-way-out/#comments Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:30:31 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1046 Previous blogs discussed LBJ’s failed efforts to get the North Vietnamese to capitulate following Operation Rolling Thunder’s graduated bombing of targets in North Vietnam. Why did they fail?  Our 7th Air Force pilots flying Wild Weasel missions quickly noted many vital targets were off-limits. They complained to command they were bombing the wrong targets, nonessential […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xv-no-way-out/feed/ 2 1046 More Vietnam Myths – Fate of the Draftees https://rlawsonauthor.com/more-vietnam-myths-fate-of-the-draftees/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/more-vietnam-myths-fate-of-the-draftees/#respond Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:00:56 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=692 Like many issues regarding the Vietnam Era (1964-1975), misconceptions persist. Some are actually perpetuated to promote an anti-war agenda or ideology. Others represent just plain myths – Hyperbole to support a viewpoint. A case in point, the draftee issue became a major factor in LBJ’s failure to run for reelection in 1968 and contributed to […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/more-vietnam-myths-fate-of-the-draftees/feed/ 0 692 50th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive – Part 2 https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-tet-offensive-part-2/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-tet-offensive-part-2/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2018 20:27:45 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=545 50th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive – Turbulent Times The North Vietnam invasion of South Vietnam on the Chinese New Year in 1968 went on for a year and was marked by the most intense and sustained fighting of the war. (I detailed more about this in my first post, 50th Anniversary of the Tet […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-tet-offensive-part-2/feed/ 1 545 11 Common Myths About the Vietnam War https://rlawsonauthor.com/11-common-myths-about-the-vietnam-war/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/11-common-myths-about-the-vietnam-war/#comments Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:16:14 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=510 – 11 Myths About the Vietnam War – 1.) Most who served were drafted. Actually, most were volunteers – 75% volunteer rate is the generally accepted number. The selective service lottery draft was not instituted until December 1, 1969, for men born between 1944 and 1950. This service represented 9.7% of that generation compared to […]

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