On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War

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Random House Publishing Group, Jun 1, 1995 - History - 240 pages
Summer's inspired analysis of America's war in Vietnam answers the most pressing questions remaining from that terrible conflict more than a decade before Robert McNamara's painful admissions.

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Tactical Victory Strategic Defeat
1
The Environment
9
The National Will The People
11
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Harry G. Summers was an infantry squad leader in the Korean War and a battalion and corps operations officer in the Vietnam War. He later served on the faculty of the Army War College and worked as the editor of Vietnam magazine and as a nationally syndicated columnist on national defense and security affairs. He died in 1999.

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