THE BAD WAR: THE WEEKLY STANDARD |
By Will Selber, Strategy Bridge: “... while senior leaders were erudite students of history and aware of similar missteps in Vietnam, America’s deeply entrenched liberal values and bureaucratic methods led them to repeat many of the same mistakes.”
Reflections on Anbar
By Frank Hoffman, Modern War Institute: “Ramadi was “a turning point of the Iraq war, the battle from which wider successes originated.” The successes of 2007 proved to be, as an even more violent entity, the Islamic State, rises out of the inherently fraught Sunni-Shia politics. ”
By Arnold R. Isaacs, War on the Rocks: “When the documentary series The Vietnam War premieres this Sunday, it will no doubt open a new chapter in America’s long debate on that war and what it meant.”
By Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic: ““They put it in the hopper and said, ‘When will we win in Vietnam?’ They went away on Friday and the thing ground away all weekend. [They] came back on Monday and there was one card in the output tray. And it said, 'You won in 1965.’””