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Nixon said he didn't want to be remembered as the first president to lose a war but, judging from the number of recent books moaning over the current plight of the military (see, for instance, George Walton's The Tarnished Shield and William Hauser's America's Army in Crisis), the Americans were indeed, as Loory baldly puts it, defeated in Vietnam. Defeated not so much by the enemy as by the military establishment's inability to solve its internal the sheer vastness of the machine, the growth of a yes-man syndrome within the officer corps (which eroded and corrupted professional judgment), the demoralization of enlisted men (resulting from chickenshit discipline, racism, drugs, inferior training, provision of soporific sex, boredom), and a growing capacity for self-deception and intolerance of the truth. Loory, a journalist and correspondent for the L. A. Times until he joined WNBC-TV News in New York earlier this year, traces the malaise to the development of the Cold War and the idea that the spread of international communism could be contained with weaponry and with vast numbers of men to operate that weaponry -- a mistake for many reasons but mainly because it put the military

Author

Stuart H. Loory

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394480251

Subjects

Military, Government_military