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The mainstream media and history books would have you believe that the Vietnam War was tragic and a dismal failure. But Phillip Jennings is here to set the record straight about one of the bright spots in U.S. military history. In this latest Politically Incorrect Guide, Jennings shatters culturally accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years.

The Vietnam War was the most important—and successful—campaign to defeat Communism. Without the sacrifices made and the courage displayed by our military, the world might be a different place. The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.

Index of contents:

1. Why We Were in Vietnam
Vietnam 1954-1960 (Nation Building 101)
The playboy and the priest

2. Camelot It Was Not
Sideshow in Laos: Instructive history ignored
Vietnam: JFK’s godchild
JFK’s big adventure goes sour
Blaming Diem
Flaming Buddhists
The end of Diem

3. LBJ’s War
China Beach Blanket Bingo
Earlier heroics
Hey, hey, LBJ, how in the heck did you get us into this mess?
Air War Vietnam
Rolling (intermittent with light showers) Thunder, March 1965 to November 1968
Operation Barrel Roll, December 1964 to March 1973
Operation Steel Tiger, April 1965 to November 1968
Tet

4. Unheralded Victory
The reason why
The missing (largely successful) years
Abrams, Bunker, Colby: The team that could
The old order changeth
The Phoenix Program
The handoff to Nixon—no more Mr. Nice Guy
The “secret” bombing
The Cambodian “Invasion”
Nixon delivers
The 1972 Christmas Bombing
Endgame

5. The Anti-War Movement
“Oh, come on, were the Commies really that bad?”
“Jane, you ignorant slut.” (Actually Dan Akroyd to Jane Curtin on Saturday Night Live, but…)
Not the VFW
Six great myths of the Anti-War Movement:

*“The government of South Vietnam is corrupt and unworthy of our support”
*“The Vietnam War is a civil war that needs to be decided by its own people”
*“The American people don’t support the war”
*“The Vietnam war is a proxy war between the capitalist West and the Communist East”
*“The war is immoral”
*“It’s an unwinnable war”

6. Coming Home
Vietnam Veteran—and proud of it
The best books about the war (an impossible list)
Summing up: Lessons learned

Appendix A: Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at the Conference on Vietnam

Appendix B: The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Pentagon Papers

Appendix C: The Vietnamese View

About the Author: PHILLIP JENNINGS served as a Marine captain in both Vietnam and Laos and wrote the critically acclaimed book, Nam-A-Rama, and Goodbye Mexico, and won the Pirates Alley Faulker Society gold medal for short fiction. He is a Vietnam War lecturer at the University of Washington.