On strategy

What went wrong in Vietnam? Applying the principles of war (based on the classic On War by Carl von Clausewitz) to the actual conduct of the fighting in Vietnam, the author provides some cogent answers to this question. It is not possible to do justice to the comprehensive nature of this author's arguments in a summary. However, among the points he raises are: the differences between the civilian planning done by government bureaucracy and the actual strategy of military operations; our failure to learn from the Korean experience -- how we "took counsel of our fears" and surrendered the…