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On the Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, Beware of the Desire to Save Face at All Costs

04.30.25

by–Jonah Shrock

Fifty years ago today, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, officially rendering the United States’ decades-long misadventure in Vietnam a failure.[i] The troubling reality of wartime decision-making is that it was not based primarily on whether the United States could feasibly win, or even whether Vietnam was strategically important. Rather, policymakers in Washington escalated the […]

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