Mark Moyar, William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College and author of Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968, joins the show to explain the major inflection points of the Vietnam War.
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• 01:58 Introduction
• 02:47 The “orthodox view”
• 05:51 Dominos
• 08:41 A Maoist vision
• 12:42 1963
• 15:30 Henry Cabot Lodge
• 21:10 Slow erosion
• 24:57 Ground troops
• 30:10 Morale
• 33:39 Nixon in office
• 37:30 Triangular diplomacy
• 39:31 Vietnamization fails
• 43:09 American mistakes
• 47:31 Wanting out
• 50:10 Aftermath
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