Formula for Failure in Vietnam: The Folly of Limited Warfare

Drawing on a range of sources, including original interviews with the commanders ordered to fight a land war in Southeast Asia, a former U.S. Army infantry captain recounts his company's experiences carrying out those orders in Vietnam and Cambodia. The crucial flaws of the Johnson Administration's strategy of attrition in are analyzed—the failure to seal off the theater of battle from Chinese and Soviet resupply, and allowing North Vietnamese ground forces to maintain sanctuaries in Laos, Cambodia and even North Vietnam itself.