Books
July, 1987
It's been said that experience is what you get when you don't get what you want, and that's about all we got from the Vietnam war: experience. Not the kind we wanted, maybe--and considering the millions of casualties and the ensuing political trauma suffered by the people of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, not the kind they wanted, either. It was a largely innocent and overwhelmingly uninformed America that went to war in Southeast Asia--unaware of the stakes and oblivious to the lessons o...
