Download or read book Formula for Failure in Vietnam written by William Hamilton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a range of sources, including original interviews with the commanders ordered to fight a land war in Southeast Asia, former U.S. Army infantry officer recounts his experiences in Vietnam as a company commander and as a battalion- and division-level operations officer carrying out those orders. The crucial flaws of the Johnson Administration's strategy of attrition are analyzed--the failure to seal off the theater of battle from Chinese and Soviet resupply, and allowing North Vietnamese forces to maintain sanctuaries in Laos, Cambodia and even North Vietnam.