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The 'Nam Anonymous Sun Sep 10 23:57:29 2023 No.22478405 [Reply] [Original]

Any recommended books on the Vietnam War? Interested in general history but also the political spookery involved too (Phoenix Project, Drug Trafficking, Pentagon Papers, Kissinger etc.)

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 11 00:01:30 2023 No.22478412 Dispatches

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 11 00:07:25 2023 No.22478423 The Best and the Brightest by Halberstam Mostly focused on the policy decisions of JFK’s cabinet and LBJ’s cabinet (there was quite a bit of overlap) wound up getting deeper and deeper into a quagmire.

Anonymous Mon Sep 11 00:12:46 2023 No.22478434

>>22478423
>The Best and the Brightest by Halberstam
I've heard this book is illuminating and that its operational theory (i.e. common sense deferring to the credentials of experts) is a prime motivating factor to many other US military involvements from the mid century onward.

>>22478412
thanks for the recommendation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 11 00:31:18 2023 No.22478466 >>22478405 Truong Nhu Tang's A Vietcong Memoir. He was a leader of the Vietcong's underground civilian government and describes life as a VC guerilla in the jungles. After the war he left the country becasue of disagreements with Hanoi.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 11 01:16:23 2023 No.22478560 >>22478466 Thank you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 11 01:34:36 2023 No.22478597 >>22478405 Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvnx2p9aQ5k

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 11 02:09:53 2023 No.22478669 bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 11 04:47:52 2023 No.22479010 File: 351 KB, 550x2500, seven1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22478405 lots of shooting in this 1 freebie internet search

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 11 17:13:11 2023 No.22480315 >>22479010 Thanks. Sounds pretty crazy. .

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 11 19:51:09 2023 No.22480790 bump

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