re: Inputs on Afiganistan from reputable people

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I just find it interesting that NSA McMaster wrote "Dereliction of Duty", placing blame for Vietnam on the decisions of Johnson & McNamara.

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I really need to read that book. I agree with the above quote.

To what extent McMaster places blame on the Officer Corps of the US military for failures in Vietnam, I can't say. I haven't read the book. But I can say that our military education system for Officers back in the years leading up to Vietnam were off the mark for training Officers to analyze and fight that kind of war. The Officer Corps made lots of mistakes because they were not trained for that kind of war.

Whose job is it to train up the high-ranking warfighters? Our military leaders have to figure out how to prepare the military leadership for the Next War. The civilian leadership of the USA doesn't have the expertise for that task.

So, we have done a better job over the decades since Vietnam than we did during the decades preceding Vietnam. I think that we have done MUCH better, but, maybe I'm just dreaming.