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From the twenty-year-old 455 tape recordings and Sorley's transcriptions of them, written by hand through a laborious, time-consuming process, emerges a picture of the senior of U.S. commander in Vietnam and his associates working to prosecute a complex and challenging military campaign in an eqally complex and difficult political context.
 
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MWMLibrary | Jan 14, 2022 |
5755. Thunderbolt General Creighton Abrams and the Army of his Times, by Lewis Sorley (read 31 Aug 2021) This biography, published in 1992, is well researched and is laudatory of Abrams, who followed General Westmoreland as the American general in Vietnam. Abrams graduated from West Point in 1936 was in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge, and was the American general in Vietnam as the war was trying to be Vietnamized. After Vietnam he was named Army Chief of Staff but died before he served two years as such. His wife was Catholic and his six kids were all raised Catholic and he himself became a Catholic a few years before he died on Sept 4, 1974.. He was a tough guy and no doubt inspired fear at times in those serving under him, I found the closing chapters of the book moving and it raised my feeling about the book . The author is a West Point grad himself and spends much time exploring Abrams' ideas on military concepts and how the Army should be.… (más)
 
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Schmerguls | Aug 31, 2021 |
Lewis Sorley is graduate of West Point with a doctorate in history from Johns Hopkins University and an American intelligence strategist and military historian. In A Better War, he argues that the United States army under William Westmoreland and the government of South Vietnam fought the Vietnam War rather stupidly prior to the Tet Offensive in 1968, but that once Westmoreland was replaced by Creighton Abrams the war was conducted more intelligently. He even argues (as have many other military historians) that the U.S. actually “won” the Tet Offensive on the battle field even though it cost the government the support of the people at home.

Sorley’s tale is one of lost opportunities. In Sorley’s opinion, much progress was made on the battle field from 1968 to 1972, but U.S. domestic politics rendered it all for nought. Most Americans are not even aware or at least tend to forget the details of that progress. We remember instead the last three disastrous years (1972-75) and the final humiliating departure from the American embassy in Saigon. The ultimate loss of the war was due primarily to (1) termination of American political, material, and military support; (2) failure by South Viet Nam to provide effective military leadership at high levels despite come tent and courageous junior officers; and (3) failure to cut off enemy infiltration and resupply through the Ho Chi Minh trail in Cambodia and Laos.

The book make enlightening reading and it was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1999.

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