Comments on: The Vietnam War Revisited- Part XII – Why Revisit? https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xii-why-revisit/ Intelligent Thrillers Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:16:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: R Lawson https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xii-why-revisit/#comment-4728 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:16:48 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1020#comment-4728 In reply to Charles Frank Moorman.

Charles- You nailed it. Vietnam was mismanaged and contradicted doctrines you were taught. If you read the entire series of these blogs and its links, I document your contentions. My historical narrative, RECALL goes into more details based on declassified CIA Intel Estimates I read.I agree, we did not learn our history lesson and Afghanistan will turn out much the same way. Semper Fi.

]]> By: Charles Frank Moorman https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xii-why-revisit/#comment-4442 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:45:44 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1020#comment-4442 Excellent. Being a former Camp Lejeune Marine who just missed Viet Nam (thank God) I can tell you the one principle we learned at OCS was taking land counts, killing the enemy less so. It was the complete opposite in Viet Nam where body count meant everything and posts (such as Khe Sahn) which were so important one day were abandoned with impunity at a later time. It completely turns the Marine Corps doctrine on its head and is there any wonder why South Vietnam eventually fell? I would say the same thing will happen in Afghanistan when the last U.S. soldier leaves and the Taliban start back up where it left off in 2001. Probably like Viet Nam we will have to swallow a large cohort of Afghans fleeing for their life since the helped the U.S. when we had troops there. Once again a very expensive lesson!

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