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Just here to recommend Phillip Caputo's A Rumor of War. Vietnam as seen by a Marine LT who was there from the start of guarding an airbase to patrolling the jungle dealing, to being the Officer in Charge of the Dead and back to patrolling. If you were there for the invasion or early parts of Iraq it's eerily Deja Vu.
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Godholio posted:This was one of my favorites as a teenager reading as much Vietnam memoir poo poo as possible. One of the few that I kept. I especially like the part where the BC cares more about a football betting pool than actually doing his goddamn job, that's when it hit me that he wasn't embellishing poo poo.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:The way the book poses it, the CIA completely failed to fulfill its primary task of intelligence gathering and focused entirely on bungled special operations. Wait till you get to the Vietnam era part of the book, remember Forrestal and Nightengale? Weiner does list every source he used in the back and it's all publicly available FOIA stuff mostly. He gets a bit angry at the very end but I don't disagree with his analysis of "maybe we shouldn't let these guys set foreign policy by default when there's a foreign policy vacuum".
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