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On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War

by Harry G. Summers Jr. · 1981

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Summer's inspired analysis of America's war in Vietnam answers the most pressing questions remaining from that terrible conflict more than a decade before Robert McNamara's painful admissions.

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war and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of this
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military historymilitary historyMore like thisLess of this
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USAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 240 pages

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