Café Bite : Why the US lost the Vietnam war
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English - October 27, 2020 10:26 - 2 minutes - 2.39 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In May 1967 US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara reported that the war was un-winnable because of the strategy of the North Vietnamese army and not because of the Vietcong in the South. That was two years after they got involved and before the serious escalation of the war which dragged on for another 6 years before the US withdrew. What was going on?
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