Mark Moyar

One of the central controversies of the war just was it something that could have been won or not.

And a lot of historians, especially on the left, will say, no, this was, you could never have won it.

Yes, I mean, the Americans have air power, artillery.

The North Indians don't have these things.

And so it is very one side.

In fact, that will be the general pattern.

So they take crippling losses at the hands of American and South Vietnamese forces.

They commit some terrible strategic blunders.

This was not a foregone conclusion that it was gonna end the way it did.

Hollywood's dramatizing things.

It is, yes.

Yes.

Hollywood hasn't done a very good job on Vietnam.

There's still, I think, a pretty strong feeling among the troops that this is something worth fighting for.

There is also this growing realization that the politicians are tying our hands behind our back.

We either need to fight this war hard or we need to get out.

That's a great question.

And I think if you want to understand the roots of this war, you have to go back at least to 1949.

And that's when the Chinese communists won the Chinese Civil War, which is...

an aspect of our history that most people really don't know very well.