One of the Ugliest Ugly Americans
Hilaire du Berrier recounts the events in the life of Major General Edward G. Lansdale, "adviser on Vietnam strategy" that proved his betrayal in the Vietnam War. (July 1986)...
Analysis of the situation in Vietnam from The John Birch Society both before and after the war. Includes articles from 1958 – 1995.
The Establishment’s War in Vietnam
This chapter from the book Shadows of Power explains how the war in Vietnam was an exercise in deliberate mismanagement, for its outcome fulfilled precisely the goals traditional to...
The Situation in Asia
Analyzes the spread of Communism throughout Asia and the Defense Department's policies that do nothing to stop it (July/August 1963) ...
No Blame! Why Not?
At the close of the Vietnam War, none of the Presidential administrations take the blame for the departure from the U.S. policy to prevent Communism from engulfing S. Vietnam....
How Vietnam Was Lost
John F. McManus explains that the Vietnam War was lost due to America's dual policy of appeasement and support of Communism in this 1975 article. (April 1975) ...
Background to Betrayal
An excerpt from Hilaire du Berrier's 1965 book about the Dien Bien Phu battle and America's plan for failure in South Vietnam. (1965) ...
Shaking the Blood-Red Hand:
Clinton Recognizes Hanoi’s Barbaric Regime As a Rhodes Scholar during the latter part of 1969, young Bill Clinton was devoting much of his time to dodging the draft and...
Retreat From Victory
by John F. McManus Reprinted with permission from THE NEW AMERICAN magazine, November 29, 1993 Anyone who has ever participated in war would concur with Union General William Sherman’s...
The Phantom Tonkin Attack
By the time U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam had ended in 1973, over 50,000 Americans had been killed and over 300,000 had been wounded. The United States...
The Tragedy of Southeast Asia: A Vietnam veteran looks back at the war we should have won
R.D. Patrick Mahoney served in Southeast Asia from 1966 to 1970 as an Air Force noncommissioned officer attached to Army Special Forces and involved in clandestine warfare outside of Vietnam....
Moving Wall
No conflict since the War Between the States has so polarized the nation as has the Vietnam Conflict. War was never declared, but a bitter conflict ensued, not only...
Indochina Without Americans…
Fall of South Vietnam, Third Indochina War, Khmer Rouge Tyranny April 1975 was an especially bad month for the inhabitants of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. That month, the dark...
The Way It Wasn’t
If you want to waste your money on utter depravity, then by all means see Platoon. Having served from 1966 to 1970 in all areas of the Southeast Asia War,...
Planning for Defeat
The Affect of the Hidden Agenda on Our Armed Forces by Brigadier General Andrew J. Gatsis, U.S. Army (Ret.) Reprinted with permission from THE NEW AMERICAN magazine, August 11,...
Unconscionable Surrender
Nine years before North Vietnam achieved its 1975 conquest of South Vietnam, the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson clearly signaled to Hanoi that the United States would not...
Vietnam 10 Years Later
Belmont, Mass. — Over the past several months, a great deal of press attention was paid to the 10th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the total Communist takeover...
Vietnam Falls: It Is Time To Establish Responsibility
NO RECRIMINATIONS. That’s the current Establishment line. No Recriminations about Vietnam. The idea is that no recriminations should be directed toward the deliberate architects of America’s first clear-cut military...
The Diem Myth
The Ngo Dinh Diem myth has exploded in South Vietnam and it is collapsing in America. It was a murderously expensive myth. For over nine years the American taxpayer...
South Vietnam
The essentials of the situation remain as they were stated in A WORLD GONE CRAZY, but it may be worth while to add that South Vietnam is now following...
About South Vietnam
In the November issue of ONE MAN’S OPINION we presented a rough index of the present degree of Communist strength—according to our estimate—in almost all of the nations of...