Ep 226: Geoffrey Wawro on the Vietnam War

School of War · Aug 29, 2025 · 59m

Geoffrey Wawro, founding director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas and author of The Vietnam War: A Military History, joins the show to discuss the causes of U.S. failure in Vietnam.

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Times

• 01:21 Introduction

• 01:50 Schools of thought

• 07:45 Orthodoxy

• 13:24 A war of choice

• 17:49 Ambivalence

• 20:15 Korean nightmare

• 23:53 Lessons

• 28:38 Policy makers

• 32:34 Obvious flaws

• 37:10 Ground war

• 42:21 South Vietnam

• 51:30 Certain defeat

• 56:21 Local politics

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