Dueling Books on Vietnam Affect Policy in Afghanistan
As President Obama reviews U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal reports, two books that draw different lessons from the Vietnam war, may be helping to shape the discussion.
Obama and several on his staff recently finished reading Lessons in Disaster, (Harcourt Brace, 1999), while many military leaders are reading A Better War, (Holt, 2008).
The WSJ says D.C. ares booksellers are having trouble keeping the two titles in stock.
All the large libraries we checked own Lessons in Disaster, with holds averaging 7 to 1. Only one in four libraries own A Better War. Both are now available in trade paperback.
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