Ep 74: Mark Moyar on Vietnam (New Makers of Modern Strategy #4)
Mark Moyar, the William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College, author of Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 and contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy, joins the show to reconsider history of the Vietnam War.
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Show Notes
Mark Moyar, the William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College, author of Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 and contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy, joins the show to reconsider the history of the Vietnam War.
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Times
• 01:53 Introduction
• 04:30 Beginnings
• 08:43 Early success
• 12:23 Fallout from the coup
• 14:00 LBJ takes over
• 19:06 Domino theory
• 22:20 China and Vietnam
• 25:40 Buying time
• 28:23 Johnson and McNamara
• 34:22 Maintaining the shield
• 35:53 Westmoreland and attrition
• 41:42 South Vietnam
• 45:33 Parallels