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Kevin Boylan

Bio link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-boylan-538835128/

Kevin Boylan is a military historian at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the author of “Losing Binh Dinh: The Failure of Pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971.” He worked for the Department of Defense and Army staff’s War Plans Division from 1995 to 2005. -from nytimes.com

Positions

Question

Why did the US lose the Vietnam War?

Position

The US lost because the Vietnam War was unwinnable

Argument

The Vietnam War was an all-consuming quagmire

“America did not experience a “lost victory” in Vietnam; in fact, victory was likely out of reach from the beginning.”

Army Command Historian at Office of the Surgeon General

23 August 2017

http://universitypressblog.dept.ku.edu/uncategorized/why-vietnam-was-unwinnable-an-essay/

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