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"Towers above all that has been written to date on Vietnam." -- Los Angeles Weekly
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"Towers above all that has been written to date on Vietnam."--Los Angeles Weekly
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By teenwitchnumber1@hotmail.com (Eugene, OR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Perfect War (Paperback)
Gibson's thesis is that we could never have won the war because we tried to see the Vietnamese on our terms instead of theirs. The Vietnam War was what he refers to as a "Technowar" -- since strength in the Western world has its basis in technology, we often have a tendancy to assume that is the same everywhere. This is what we did with our enemies in Vietnam -- we could not recognize their strengths because they were not like us. Because we had a stronger technological base, we thought there was no way we could lose the war, and ironically this way of thinking was a great contributer to our failures in Vietnam.
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