Americans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnam--one in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at home--over whether the war was unnecessary, unjust, and unwinnable. Revisionist historians who reject this view have formulated many contra-factual scenarios for how the war might have been won, but also put forward one historically testable hypothesis--namely that the war actually was won after the 1968 Tet Offensive, only to be thrown away later through a failure of political will. It is this "Lost Victory" hypothesis that Kevin M. Boylan takes up in Losing Binh Dinh, aiming...
Americans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnam--one in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at home--over whether the war was unnecessa...
