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Ep 194: Mark Moyar on the Vietnam War
School of WarMay 2, 2025
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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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