Vietnam shows that when one side fights to win, and the other fights for a draw, the former will most likely be the outcome.
Yep. LBJ was told that before the first American combat troops even landed on the soil.
He didn’t want to hear it. His #1 overriding interest was his domestic political agenda. He was willing to send thousands of Americans into a war he knew was unwinnable in the fashion he was willing to fight it. And he designed the strategy if you can even call it that.
I’d say the main hero and prophet at the time was the Marine Corps’ Wallace Greene. He was maybe the only guy who told it like it was and who refused to be intimidated by Johnson and his flunkies.
People who think that Obama is our worst President don’t realize how much Lyndon Johnson is deserving of that honor as well.