Westmoreland Revisited

Given the official U.S. optimism over Ukraine's counteroffensive, Barbara Koeppel concludes that Washington has not learned any lessons from failed wars in Vietnam, and later Iraq and Afghanistan.



By Barbara Koeppel
Special to Consortium News
At the end of 1967, the Vietnam War was a stale

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