Whatever you want to call it, we officially had Marines on the ground fighting in March '65. I call it a waste of blood and treasure. Eisenhower was convinced of the Domino theory of communism. France let it turn into a mess and dumped it in our lap. LBJ decided to escalate. We lost 58K Americans there.
Whatever you want to call it, we officially had Marines on the ground fighting in March '65. I call it a waste of blood and treasure. Eisenhower was convinced of the Domino theory of communism. France let it turn into a mess and dumped it in our lap. LBJ decided to escalate. We lost 58K Americans there.
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