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Found this article in the Summer of 1975 Issue Soldier of Fortune.
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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3923971" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>All done by the politicians, not the military. Keep that in mind. The military could and should have easily won that war but the micro managing by LBJ and McNamara caused the war to go way beyond where it should have gone in length.</p><p></p><p>The first major proposal of peace from North Vietnam came from North Vietnamese premier <a href="https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/pham-van-dong/" target="_blank">Pham Van Dong</a> in April <strong>1965</strong>. Pham’s four-point plan called for a return to the provisions of the <a href="https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/geneva-accords-of-1954/" target="_blank">Geneva Accords of 1954</a>, along with the withdrawal of US military personnel, yet the United</p><p>States ignored it.</p><p></p><p> LBJ and McNamara personally caused thousands of American lives and wounded by mismanagement and not knowing how wars should be fought, not to say about falsely starting that war with the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that never happened.</p><p>McNamara has since publicly apologized for his part in engineering that war. Probably thinking this would keep him out of the gates of hell. I hope it doesn't.</p><p>Also, the South Vietnamese government was totally corrupt as well as most of the ARVN troop commanders. The individual soldiers were great fighters at times but their command for the most part was worthless. Easily searchable on the internet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3923971, member: 5412"] All done by the politicians, not the military. Keep that in mind. The military could and should have easily won that war but the micro managing by LBJ and McNamara caused the war to go way beyond where it should have gone in length. The first major proposal of peace from North Vietnam came from North Vietnamese premier [URL='https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/pham-van-dong/']Pham Van Dong[/URL] in April [B]1965[/B]. Pham’s four-point plan called for a return to the provisions of the [URL='https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/geneva-accords-of-1954/']Geneva Accords of 1954[/URL], along with the withdrawal of US military personnel, yet the United States ignored it. LBJ and McNamara personally caused thousands of American lives and wounded by mismanagement and not knowing how wars should be fought, not to say about falsely starting that war with the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that never happened. McNamara has since publicly apologized for his part in engineering that war. Probably thinking this would keep him out of the gates of hell. I hope it doesn't. Also, the South Vietnamese government was totally corrupt as well as most of the ARVN troop commanders. The individual soldiers were great fighters at times but their command for the most part was worthless. Easily searchable on the internet. [/QUOTE]
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