We have operation rolling thunder, the bombing of laos etc. which was all incredibly good for the arms companies.
From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped more than two million tons of ordnance on Laos during 580,000 bombing missions—equal to a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24-hours a day, for 9 years. Nearly equal to the 2.1 million tons of bombs the U.S. dropped on Europe and Asia during all of World War II
The objective of stopping North Vietnam and the Viet Cong was never reached. The Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Curtis LeMay, however, had long advocated saturation bombing in Vietnam and wrote of the communists that "we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age"
If anything I'd say LeMay (time and time again) was radical, and McNamara was frequently the voice of reason and logic.
FACT: bob advised LBJ to not bomb north vietnams military assets, energy assets, or really, anything that truly could cripple, and bring north vietnam, to the bargaining table.
the result? 1968 thru 1972, tens of thousands of US soldiers were used as fodder for the war. as for civilians, that is a can of worms that is truly, truly tragic.
nixon gets into office.... GUESS WHAT? GUESS-FUCKN-WHAT?!
orders carpet-bombing of critical NV infrastructure. less than a week later, guess who shows up in paris to sign a peace-treaty?
What an odd statement.
If anything Mcnamara was based as fuck, he wanted vietnam to fight their own fucking war, and didn't want american's sucked into it.
Probably what led to Kennedy being assassinated.
Enter LBJ, suddenly we have the gulf of tonkin incident (FAKE FAKE FAKE) https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/politics/31war.html
We have operation rolling thunder, the bombing of laos etc. which was all incredibly good for the arms companies.
From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped more than two million tons of ordnance on Laos during 580,000 bombing missions—equal to a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24-hours a day, for 9 years. Nearly equal to the 2.1 million tons of bombs the U.S. dropped on Europe and Asia during all of World War II
The objective of stopping North Vietnam and the Viet Cong was never reached. The Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Curtis LeMay, however, had long advocated saturation bombing in Vietnam and wrote of the communists that "we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age"
If anything I'd say LeMay (time and time again) was radical, and McNamara was frequently the voice of reason and logic.
Weak content.
FACT: bob advised LBJ to not bomb north vietnams military assets, energy assets, or really, anything that truly could cripple, and bring north vietnam, to the bargaining table.
the result? 1968 thru 1972, tens of thousands of US soldiers were used as fodder for the war. as for civilians, that is a can of worms that is truly, truly tragic.
nixon gets into office.... GUESS WHAT? GUESS-FUCKN-WHAT?!
orders carpet-bombing of critical NV infrastructure. less than a week later, guess who shows up in paris to sign a peace-treaty?