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Vietnam: "Quagmire" Quackery
Rudenstine, David | March 5, 2001 issue

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The article discusses the book "Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975," written by A.J. Langguth on the situation concerning Vietnam war. The book should help keep the records honest today, too, by constituting an antidote to the published memoirs of those who planned and executed the war. Langguth's retelling of the United States' involvement in Vietnam covers already familiar ground. Langguth's account indicates that those who planned and executed the war believed that the primary interest of the United States had less to do with contaming Communism than it did with some vague idea of national prestige.

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OUR Vietnam (Book); LANGGUTH, A. J.; WAR; STRATEGIC planning; COMMUNISM; VIETNAM; UNITED States
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