This series of blog posts is based off my reading of The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, by Barbara Tuchman. The Vietnamese repulsed Chinese invasions for millennia, resisted the Japanese in WWII, and defeated the French after almost a century of colonization of Indochina. I recount and document this history of the Mandarin […]
The Vietnam War Revisited – Part III – Misgovernment
If you read my two prior blogs addressing this subject you will understand where I’m going with my discussion of Barbara Tuchman’s analysis of the Vietnam War. If you missed them, here they are:The Vietnam War RevisitedThe Vietnam War Revisited – Part 2 The blogs contain links to other pertinent blogs about the basically misunderstood […]
The Vietnam War Revisited – Part II – It Did Not Have to Be That Way
If you read my first blog with this title posted in January 2019, you have some understanding how that controversial war divided and polarized our society into political camps that persist over five decades later. We suffer a form of national PTSD as a consequence of the confusion and myths that Vietnam engendered. Negative societal […]
My Office in Vietnam
The personal reflection below of his Vietnam experience was sent to me by a Marine A4 combat pilot who flew over a hundred close air support (CAS) missions in the war during 1968/69. He was awarded two DFC’s for his heroic service. We played golf together for years before he told me that fact last […]
Vietnam War- Sobering Statistics
The following information was emailed to me and I found it posted on the Vietnam272nd.com website. Although I do not know the original author, it mentions that these statistics were taken from a variety of sources to include: The VFW Magazine, the Public Information Office, and the HQ CP Forward Observer – 1st Recon April 12, […]
Vietnam: The Day It Became the Longest War
Vietnam – The Longest War A fellow Vietnam vet, a Marine A4 / CAS pilot, sent me a very revealing link that will shock you. It’s an excerpt of a book chapter written by Lt. General Charles Cooper, USMC (Ret) that demonstrates LBJ’s disingenuous behavior, his micromanagement and mismanagement of the Vietnam War. He believed […]
