Word: vietnamization
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...know what roles Muslims should play in our military, but perhaps counseling veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan should not be one of them. Fair or not, I would not have wanted to talk to an Army psychiatrist of Vietnamese descent when I came home from Vietnam in 1970. Bruce W. Rider, Captain, U.S. Air Force (ret.) GRAPEVINE, TEXAS...
Before the Obama Administration assumes that General Petraeus' track record in Iraq is transferable to Afghanistan, it should reflect more on a critical U.S. mistake in Vietnam. Much of the reason for the U.S. failure there can be traced to the assumption that General Edward Lansdale's successful approach to defeating the Philippine Huk insurgency would also work in Vietnam. Price Bingham, MELBOURNE...
...know what roles Muslims should play in our military, but perhaps counseling veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan should not be one of them [Nov. 23]. Fair or not, I would not have wanted to talk to an Army psychiatrist of Vietnamese descent when I came home from Vietnam in 1970. Bruce W. Rider, Captain, U.S. Air Force (ret.) Grapevine, Texas...
Halberstam, a former Crimson managing editor who later won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Vietnam, was killed in a car accident in San Francisco...
John G. Wofford ’57, a former Crimson president, said that the timing of the park’s naming falls in line with the 45th anniversary of Halberstam’s book, “The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam...