Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War
Published on 2. February 2010
244 pages
978-1-59698-142-3 (ISBN)
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The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failure?at least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe. Yet, Phillip Jennings sets the record straight in The Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to the Vietnam War. In this latest "P.I.G.", Jennings shatters culturally-accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years. The Vietnam War was the most important?and successful?campaign to defeat Communism. Without the sacrifices made and the courage displayed by our military, the world might be a different place. The Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to the Vietnam War reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War
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03/2010
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Content
- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter One - WHY WE WERE IN VIETNAM
- Vietnam 1954-1960 (Nation Building 101)
- The playboy and the priest
- Chapter Two - CAMELOT IT WAS NOT
- Sideshow in Laos: Instructive history ignored
- Vietnam: JFK's godchild
- JFK's big adventure goes sour
- Blaming Diem
- Flaming Buddhists
- The end of Diem
- Chapter Three - LBJ'S WAR
- China Beach Blanket Bingo
- Earlier heroics
- Hey, hey, LBJ, how in the heck did you get us into this mess?
- Air War Vietnam
- Rolling (intermittent with light showers) Thunder, March 1965 to November 1968
- Operation Barrel Roll, December 1964 to March 1973
- Operation Steel Tiger, April 1965 to November 1968
- Tet
- Chapter Four - UNHERALDED VICTORY, 1968-1973
- The reason why
- The missing (largely successful) years
- Abrams, Bunker, Colby: The team that could
- The old order changeth
- The Phoenix program
- The handoff to Nixon-no more Mr. Nice Guy
- The "secret" bombing
- The Cambodian "Invasion"
- Nixon delivers
- The 1972 Christmas bombing
- Endgame
- Chapter Five - THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
- "Oh, come on, were the Commies really that bad?"
- "Jane, you ignorant slut." (Actually Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin on Saturday ...
- Not the VFW
- Six great myths of the anti-war movement
- "The government of South Vietnam is corrupt and unworthy of our support"
- "The Vietnam War is a civil war that needs to be decided by its own people"
- "The American people don't support the war"
- "The Vietnam war is a proxy war between the capitalist West and the Communist East"
- "The war is immoral"
- "It's an unwinnable war"
- Chapter Six - COMING HOME
- Vietnam Veteran-and proud of it
- The best books about the war (an impossible list)
- Summing up: Lessons learned
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- NOTES
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
