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How the U.S. Could Have “Won” the Vietnam War (1982) — Updated

W.J. Astore Much like my father, I can be a pack rat. Going through old files, I found a “blue book” exam that I took as a college freshman in 1982. The essay question I had to answer was whether the U.S. could have won the Vietnam War.  Recall that in 1975, South Vietnam had…

April 19, 2014 in US Foreign Relations, US Military, war.

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