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    Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, he finds that our failure to understand the Communists, our South Vietnamese allies, or even ourselves took us down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too late—we missed the war’s essential political character. Documenting the story from his own personal files, now available at the Texas Tech Vietnam Archive, as well as from the historical record, the former government official paints striking portraits of such key figures as John F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey, and Ngo Dinh Diem, among others with whom he dealt.

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    Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, he finds that our failure to understand the Communists, our South Vietnamese allies, or even ourselves took us down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too late—we missed the war’s essential political character. Documenting the story from his own personal files, now available at the Texas Tech Vietnam Archive, as well as from the historical record, the former government official paints striking portraits of such key figures as John F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey, and Ngo Dinh Diem, among others with whom he dealt.

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    Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, he finds that our failure to understand the Communists, our South Vietnamese allies, or even ourselves took us down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too late—we missed the war’s essential political character. Documenting the story from his own personal files, now available at the Texas Tech Vietnam Archive, as well as from the historical record, the former government official paints striking portraits of such key figures as John F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey, and Ngo Dinh Diem, among others with whom he dealt.

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Contact: Claire Noble


    (410) 295-1039, cnoble@usni.org

    WHY VIETNAM MATTERS


    By Rufus Phillips
    Foreword by Richard Holbrooke

    Rufus Phillips is featured in the new Ken Burns 2017


    documentary film series, The Vietnam War,
    which will premiere on 17 September 2017 on PBS.
    Phillipss short chapter on lessons the U.S. should have learned from
    the Vietnam War should be mandatory reading in Washington, D.C.
    Publishers Weekly

    It is, among other things, a wonderful read, full of detail and drama.
    George Packer, The New Yorker

    If you want to know why Vietnam matters, read this brilliant memoir
    and find out why those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are
    doomed to make the same mistakes." Joseph L. Galloway, co-
    author of We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young

    In the flood of books on every aspect of the Vietnam War, this is one
    that will endure as among the most valuable, accurate, and important.
    Lewis Sorley, author of A Better War

    Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in
    Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, he
    finds that our failure to understand the Communists, our South Vietnamese allies, or even ourselves took us
    down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too latewe missed the wars essential political
    character. Documenting the story from his own personal files, now available at the Texas Tech Vietnam
    Archive, as well as from the historical record, the former government official paints striking portraits of such
    key figures as John F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey,
    and Ngo Dinh Diem, among others with whom he dealt.

    RUFUS PHILLIPS spent much of his time over a fourteen-year period in South Vietnam as a U.S. Army
    officer, CIA case officer, USAID counterinsurgency official, and State Department consultant. He helped
    monitor the 2009 Afghan elections. He also provided counterinsurgency advice to the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
    He was inducted into the U.S. Army OCS Hall of Fame in 2014 and appears in Ken Burns 2017 documentary
    film series, The Vietnam War.
    Why Vietnam Matters
    By Rufus Phillips
    Publication date: 15 August 2017
    ISBN: 978-1-68247-310-8 | Paperback & eBook: $24.95
    448 pages, 32 b/w photos

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