The Vietnam War: Realities, Myths and Misconceptions
The General Andrew J. Goodpaster Lecture Presented at the Meeting of the American Veterans’ Institute Army-Navy Club Washington, DC 3 June 2014 John F. Guilmartin, Jr. Conventional wisdom holds the Vietnam War to be the most divisive and controversial war in our history, second only to the Civil War. ThatContinue Reading
The Vietnam War/Leftist Fly-Paper by Captain Phillip Jennings
A recent letter to Lt. General “Mick” Kicklighter, head of the government funded Vietnam War 50th Commemoration Program, demands recognition for the “peace-activists” who supported the North Vietnamese communist victory over South Vietnam. (One awaits a letter to the Holocaust Museum from the Nazis claiming there could be no HolocaustContinue Reading
Who Was Ho Chi Minh? A Deceitful Mass Murderer.
Millions of words have been written about Ho Chi Minh. He has been called the George Washington of Vietnam,1 a devoted nationalist who loved his country,2 a brilliant leader who fought for independence with a ragtag army of sandal-clad peasants and defeated the greatest power in the world.3 It allContinue Reading
This Is What We Fight Against
Copied below is an excerpt from Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire by Noam Chomsky. This brief excerpt is filled with falsehoods and false assertions as is typical of Chomsky, yet Chomsky is still praised 1 in the media 2 for hisContinue Reading
