30/07/2014
Libya and Vietnam: Two Lessons in Geographical Ignorance and Projection
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling This week when the Obama Administration announced it had evacuated its personnel from its embassy in Tripoli, it brought back memories of Saigon. But before the fall of Saigon there was the siege of Khe Sanh. The Vietnamese assault at Khe Sahn was met with the heaviest air raids in the history of warfare. After months of nonstop fighting, which claimed 1,000 Marines and thousands of Vietnamese soldiers, U.S. military strategists decided the area was no longer worth defending. Captain Dabney, whose company had sustained a 90 percent casualty rate in defending Hill 881-South, received orders to evacuate and depart for Dong Ha. Shrugging off the...
