The growing dishonesty of the upper military levels came to a head. The JCS were simply lying about the progress of the war. After WW2 the American public had a lot of trust in the military. The revelation of those lies are a devastating disaster for the good name of the Army. Americans felt very betrayed. The Pentagon wasn’t lying for operational security. After all Ho Chi Minh knew that we weren’t winning. The Pentagon lies were only to cover up the crashing incompetence of Generals who were way over their heads and incapable of dealing with an insurgency. Fools were using tactics designed to fight the Imperial Japanese Army or the Wehrmacht. Not the NVA.
Ellsworth did us a favor.
And decades later we now know those in government are lying about everything...
And as we are seeing today, classified documents can now be used as leverage by the deep state to continue to operate without oversight.
Really? What comic book did you get that gem from? Those of us on the ground adapted quite well and killed the VC and NVA without using massed B-17s and M4 Shermans.
Yet another "expert" on our Freerepublic.
What favor, by giving Biden the idea of what to do in Iraq?
The orders of what to do and not do in Vietnam came from the USSR. The USA from the start of Marxism was always in the Marxist movement’s crosshairs.
Sorry: Afghanistan, not Iraq.