[untenured]

The author, FWIW, while he has written compellingly on 20th-century horrors, thinks Mr. Trump is an incipient fascist.

[robowombat]

I think this is done by many in the historical fraternity to keep their standing good so they will have career. Just for most of the Viet Nam the only books published were critical or worse derogatory and slanderous. Now that the 25 year rule has been passed a great volume of hitherto classified documentation has been made available but the history fraternity won't touch it. These documents include following day by day how in June 1965, LBJ felt there was no choice but for large scale conventional intervention as the general VC-NV operational plan had been picked on wireless and easily decrypted. It called for a progressively larger NVA conventional attack, at first out of the LAO Panhandle and then once the ARVN units were cleared out directly across the DMZ. The goal was to isolate destroy the five ARVN division and the SV Marines that the the NV considered capable of protracted resistance. Now outside of one book I have yet to see any of this documentation used. The original US commitment may have been unwise but the attempts to defeat the NVA/VC forces was not an exercise in great power chauvinism and racism.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Which author?

I’m confused which name to tie to this piece.

[robowombat]

To get a better understanding of why individual such as LTG McMaster oppose the Trump as strongly as many woke academics the following book is most enlightening:

Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century

Marini, John

It is not a quick read as the old Conservative Book Club volumes mostly were. It does explain how the elite attitudes which were incorporated into US security programs such as NATO, foreign military assistance, Marshall Plan which had general public support morphed into globalistic attitudes of brute force social engineering, gunpoint democratization and the PC/Cancel culture. As I say not an easy read but very worth while.