Quote Originally Posted by tequila View Post
that GVN was on its way to unstoppable victory against the VCI under Diem,
where in the world did you draw that conclusion? Moyar tells us that South Vietnam was winning , not on its way to an "unstoppable victory".
that ARVN would have won the battle of Ap Bac if not for the bungling Americans,
No, moyar's take was not that the ARVN would have won if not for the americans, his take was that it was not a dehibilitating defeat that Vann and his media friends portrayed it as.
I did, however, like his passage on how Madam Nhu, that exemplar of moral probity, brought the whorehouses of Saigon to a stop, with American servicemen reduced to playing tic-tac-toe with virtuous barmaids, and how this was a reason why the Western press turned against Diem.
Now you are bordering on comedy. Did you even read the book? Please provide a page number in which Moyar derives that conclusion.

With this sort of clear-eyed history, how could Moyar have failed to gain tenure?
This sort of ad-hom attack is not helpful in critiqueing Moyar's work, but it is helpful in understanding your true motivations for posting here.