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Vietnam War: Who was right about what went wrong – and why it matters in Afghanistan

  • Written by David Skidmore, Professor of Political Science, Drake University
imageSecretary of State Dean Rusk, President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Yoichi Robert Okamoto/Wikipedia

The ghosts of the Vietnam War no doubt hovered over a recently assembled conclave of President Donald Trump’s advisers as they deliberated over the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.

In the Vietnam era, as...

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