Vietnam War Archives

4Jun

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USA

How the U.S. Navy Sold the Vietnam War

NOVANEWS By Gareth Porter Truthdig Dr. Tom Dooley, whose best-selling book “Deliver Us From Evil” helped create a favorable climate of opinion for U.S. intervention in South Vietnam, has long been linked to legendary CIA officer Edward G. Lansdale and his black operations in Vietnam between 1954 and 1955. But the real story about Dooley’s influential book, which has finally emerged from more recent scholarly research, is that it was engineered by an official of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Command, Capt. William Lederer. Lederer is best known as the co-author, with Eugene Burdick, of the 1958 novel “The Ugly American,” which was turned into a 1963 movie starring Marlon Brando. Far more important, however, is the fact that from 1951 through 1957 Capt. Lederer was on the staff of the c...

12Dec

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USA, Vietnam

345,000 VERY LOW IQ MEN DELIBERATELY DRAFTED FOR VIETNAM 'Video'

NOVANEWS HALF WERE ASSIGNED TO COMBAT UNITS THE DEATH TOLL WAS APPALLING” War is cruel in an infinite number of ways. Here’s one few people are aware of. The story of “McNamara’s Folly”, also known as “Project 100,000.” During the Vietnam War, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lowered mental standards to induct 354,000 low-IQ men. The death toll was appalling.

8Nov

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USA, Vietnam

McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War

NOVANEWS Hamilton Gregory A presentation and reading by Hamilton Gregory, author of “McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam.” Because so many college students were avoiding military service during the Vietnam War, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lowered mental standards to induct 354,000 low-IQ men. Their death toll in combat was appalling. Related Russian Sappers Departing for Laos to Clear Country of US Bombs – Reports In "Militarism" The Illusion of War Without Casualties In "Militarism" The Tragic Failure of Ken Burns Vietnam In "Deception"

23Oct

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USA, Vietnam

What We Still Haven’t Learned from the Vietnam War

NOVANEWS By Jimmy Falls WhoWhatWhy Featured image: Vietnam War protestors march at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on October 21, 1967. (Photo credit: Frank Wolfe / LBJ Library / Wikimedia) Fifty years ago today, in 1967, nearly 100,000 Americans marched on Washington, DC, to protest the Vietnam War. In those days there was a mandatory draft in place, and the risk was very real that a young man just out of high school could quickly wind up 13,000 miles away, fighting an unseen enemy in jungles that didn’t need tanks or B-52 bombers to inflict fear. Worse yet was the possibility of going MIA or coming home in a body bag — just another expendable statistic in the great fight against communism. But even many of those who made it back left part of their souls in that war zone. Today...

20Oct

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The Vietnam War and the Phoenix Program: “A Computerized Genocide” ‘Video’

NOVANEWS Michael Maclear’s 1975 documentary, Spooks and Cowboys, Gooks and Grunts (Part 1) By Michael Maclear and Douglas Valentine Global Research Introduction by Douglas Valentine Michael Maclear’s 1975 documentary, Spooks and Cowboys, Gooks and Grunts (Part 1) is more relevant now than ever. Forty-two years after its release, it exposes the suppressed, shameful truths that have corrupted America since the Vietnam War. The documentary makes it perfectly clear that “we” have always known what was going on – and that “we” have perfected the means of denying and obfuscating it. Maclear’s documentary stands in stark contrast to the current Ken Burns documentary, The Vietnam War, which is nothing more than historical revisionism, sprinkled with massive doses of cognitive dissonan...

26Sep

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Far East

Obfuscating the Truths of Vietnam

NOVANEWS By S. Brian Willson | CounterPunch I have hesitated to comment on the instructive discussion on VFP’s Full Disclosure page about the Burns-Novick Vietnam PBS series because I am not watching it. I have enjoyed reading many of the comments, and have communicated with people who have seen advance screenings. In 2014, I heard Burns’ publicly discuss his pending PBS Vietnam series. He responded to a question about Agent Orange with a “safe” position that damage to human beings from the chemical herbicide was scientifically inconclusive. This was not surprising given that Burns is a popular, established film maker of various aspects of history from jazz, to baseball, to the Civil War. However, any deep threat to the US American basic “good guy” self-image would likely curtail his co...

11Apr

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Hearts and Minds ‘VIDEO’

NOVANEWS Hearts and Minds (Peter davis, 1974) Hearts and Minds is a 1974 American documentary film about the Vietnam War directed by Peter Davis. The film’s title is based on a quote from President Lyndon B. Johnson: “the ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there”. The movie was chosen as Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 47th Academy Awards presented in 1975.