Sundar Akella

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Things cannot continue like this.… There are only two solutions. The first consists in realizing our objectives in Indochina by means of military force. If we choose that, let us at least avoid illusions and pious lies. To achieve decisive military successes rapidly we need three times as many troops in the field and a tripling of appropriations, and we need them very quickly.…
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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