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11 Lessons from the Vietnam War

Bilmon posts these from Robert McNamara's memoirs:

But for the most part, McNamara's eleven points are a pretty good capsule summary of the lessons that should have been learned from Vietnam, but which weren't -- in large part because the people now running the foreign policy of the U.S. government have never even been able to face up to the fact that we lost the Vietnam War, much less understand why we lost it.