– Revisiting the Vietnam War – During 2018, I posted thirty-five blogs addressing the history, the controversies and the myths surrounding one of the most misunderstood wars in our history. Vietnam was a war that divided the nation and influenced our national psyche and mindsets that persist into the present wars in the Middle East. […]

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 […]

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 […]