
Vietnam Revisited: Conversation With Mark Moyar
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
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Mark McNamara's Book Rolling Thunder
There's a huge debate over the enemy logistics and McNamara is saying the enemy has plenty of extra logistical capacity so if we bomb them some more it will make a difference. Well again the North Vietnamese documents have now made clear that in fact there was not this great unused capacity. Even with the limited bombing the North Vietnamese are oftentimes unable to operate because they don't have enough food or ammunition. Johnson doesn't fully understand this and he backs off in one of these many bombing pauses that are supposed to encourage the enemy to negotiate which is another big fallacy.
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