Ep 194: Mark Moyar on the Vietnam War

School of War · May 2, 2025 · 54m

Mark Moyar, William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College and author of Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968, joins the show to explain the major inflection points of the Vietnam War.

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Times

• 01:58 Introduction

• 02:47 The “orthodox view”

• 05:51 Dominos

• 08:41 A Maoist vision

• 12:42 1963

• 15:30 Henry Cabot Lodge

• 21:10 Slow erosion

• 24:57 Ground troops

• 30:10 Morale

• 33:39 Nixon in office

• 37:30 Triangular diplomacy

• 39:31 Vietnamization fails

• 43:09 American mistakes

• 47:31 Wanting out

• 50:10 Aftermath

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