On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of
the Vietnam War by Harry G.
Summers
On Startegy Is About The Best Thing I Have Read On Vietnam
Summers inspired analysis of Americas war in Vietnam answers the most
pressing questions remaining from that terrible conflict more than a decade
before Robert McNamaras painful admissions.
Personal Review: On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the
Vietnam War by Harry G. Summers
The title of my review was actually made by Drew Middleton, The New
York Times. Coming from that source with the agenda they have, it's a
pretty compelling endorsement, and it is 100% correct.
The following are quotes from the book which should give you some idea
how fair and objective Colonel Summers was. So, if you're trying to
understand the Vietnam War (as I am), buying this book is an absolute
requirement. And, ironically, it does not matter whether you were for or

against this war. It's not one of those books where the ideology driven
people will get all bent out of shape trying to defend the positions they took
30 or so years ago. Read the quotes; I think you'll agree that Summers
was fair.
"In failing to press their military advice they [the military leadership] allowed
the US to pursue a strategic policy that was faulty from the start."
Colonel Lung, Army of the Rrepublic of Vietnam: "The Americans had
designed a purely defensive strategy for Vietnam. It was a strategy that
was based on the attrition of the enemy through a prolonged defense and
made no allowance for decisive offensove action."
"The confusion over [our political and military] objectives detailed above
had a devastating effect on our ability to conduct the war."
"Our new "strategy" of counterinsurgency blinded us to the fact that the
guerrilla war was tactical and not strategic."
"And the critics were right. It was a different. All of America's previous wars
were fought in the heat of passion. Vietnam was fought in cold blood, and
that was intolerable to the American people."
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