October 18, 2025 • 59 secs
A Military History.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the WZ Book Club, and I'm Jordan Rich
looking at a book that takes us back to the
mid twentieth century. It's called The Vietnam War, A Military
History by Jeffrey Warrow. It's been called the best overview
of America's misadventure in Southeast Asia and sure to become
the standard one volume book on the war. That's a
quote from The New York Times? Could the United States
have won the war in Vietnam? Was it winnable? In
(00:23):
The Vietnam War Military History, the author sites thousands of
references that indicate the possibility of winning this war was
doomed from the beginning. Those of us alive then remember
the political fight that dragged on, with civilian and military
leaders dreading the consequences of defeat at the hands of
the viet Cong. Poorly executed and planned operations, and the
corruption centered in Saigon with those running the South Vietnamese
(00:45):
regime all added to what turned out to be quote
the first war loss by America. The Vietnam War, A
Military History by Jeffrey Warro. That's the book Club, WZ,
Boston's news radio
This is the WZ Book Club, and I'm Jordan Rich
looking at a book that takes us back to the
mid twentieth century. It's called The Vietnam War, A Military
History by Jeffrey Warrow. It's been called the best overview
of America's misadventure in Southeast Asia and sure to become
the standard one volume book on the war. That's a
quote from The New York Times? Could the United States
have won the war in Vietnam? Was it winnable? In
(00:23):
The Vietnam War Military History, the author sites thousands of
references that indicate the possibility of winning this war was
doomed from the beginning. Those of us alive then remember
the political fight that dragged on, with civilian and military
leaders dreading the consequences of defeat at the hands of
the viet Cong. Poorly executed and planned operations, and the
corruption centered in Saigon with those running the South Vietnamese
(00:45):
regime all added to what turned out to be quote
the first war loss by America. The Vietnam War, A
Military History by Jeffrey Warro. That's the book Club, WZ,
Boston's news radio
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