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The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
Very detailed account of the run up to the Vietnam war, and all the political, bureaucratic and military intrigues. Readable but too elaborate for my taste.
In the epilogue (p.614):"now that illusion was gone, the real world was tougher than the world of doctored war games and high-level meetings". Reality caught up to the generals and bureaucrats.
How the US military described the ARVN promotion system (South Vietnamese army): Fuck up and move up. "They did not realize that by now the slogan applied to their own Army as well" (p.281).
Halberstam recommends thia Atlantic article at the end of this book:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1968/04/how-could-vietnam-happen-an-autopsy/306462/?single_page=true
In the epilogue (p.614):"now that illusion was gone, the real world was tougher than the world of doctored war games and high-level meetings". Reality caught up to the generals and bureaucrats.
How the US military described the ARVN promotion system (South Vietnamese army): Fuck up and move up. "They did not realize that by now the slogan applied to their own Army as well" (p.281).
Halberstam recommends thia Atlantic article at the end of this book:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1968/04/how-could-vietnam-happen-an-autopsy/306462/?single_page=true