Geoffrey Wawro, founding director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas and author of The Vietnam War: A Military History,  joins the show to discuss the causes of U.S. failure in Vietnam.

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    •      01:21 Introduction

    •      01:50 Schools of thought

    •      07:45 Orthodoxy      

    •      13:24 A war of choice

    •      17:49 Ambivalence       

    •      20:15 Korean nightmare      

    •      23:53 Lessons

    •      28:38 Policy makers

    •      32:34 Obvious flaws   

    •      37:10 Ground war

    •      42:21 South Vietnam 

    •      51:30 Certain defeat

    •      56:21 Local politics

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