Several months ago, I wrote a series about Ho Chi Minh. In the research for the series, there were still parts of the story that didn’t really make sense.
Thank you for this. After being drafted in the infantry and spending 1969 in Vietnam, and losing 57,000 fellow Americans it’s nice to know more about how we got into this mess.
Absolutely! If you read the McNamara memo, he outlines three fronts (in addition to the Russian northern front) for the containment of China: (a) the Japan-Korea front; (b) the India-Pakistan front; and (c) the Southeast Asia front.
Thank you for this. After being drafted in the infantry and spending 1969 in Vietnam, and losing 57,000 fellow Americans it’s nice to know more about how we got into this mess.
So would you say that South Vietnam was basically the same as a South Korea? After all, South Korea was also an American invention.
I find this interesting because it appears to me that the Vietnam was was basically a what if scenario if the Korean War failed.
Absolutely! If you read the McNamara memo, he outlines three fronts (in addition to the Russian northern front) for the containment of China: (a) the Japan-Korea front; (b) the India-Pakistan front; and (c) the Southeast Asia front.