The conflict in Vietnam just didn’t happen when the United States sent troops to Vietnam. The struggle for Southeast Asia, however, was only one episode in the even longer Cold War that began in 1946 and ended with the collapse of global communism in the late 1980s. The 58,000 Americans who sacrificed their lives in Vietnam marched in the same proud ranks as the tens of thousands of their compatriots who fought and died to achieve ultimate victory in the Cold War.
Click to open PDF The Approaching Storm in South East Asia