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What are opinions on Lewis Sorley's book? I liked it and his conclusions made sense, but I'm not an expert on Vietnam by any means.

Thank you, almost positive April 1968 was the one, confused between Templer and Thompson. I think it was Hilsman's article then, he might have made the case that since interdicting supplies from the...

There was a good article in Foreign Affairs, sometime in the mid-Sixties, that demonstrated (by truck, sampan, bicycle, and elephant (!) load) how little the VC needed in terms of daily supplies. ...

That was exactly my take on it. Despite the transparent politics of the piece, and its innacuracies, and general tone, I think he's on to something about revisionist histories of Vietnam. And about...

Definitely agree, I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum politically from The Nation, but I take his larger point about a revisionist history of Vietnam being used as an important rhetorical point...

I'm not normally a fan of The Nation, but found it tough to disagree with this take on revisionist history of the Vietnam War:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071015/perlstein



Thoughts?