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Overview

Think the United States lost the Vietnam War? Think again.

No war in American history is so shrouded in obfuscation and myth as the Vietnam War: “Vietnam” has entered into our national memory as a byword for disaster, usually accompanied by the word “quagmire,” and the specter of the war has haunted our foreign policy discussions ever since. Left-leaning historians with a political agenda, aided and abetted by the liberal media, have convinced the world that for America, the Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failure. Liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling lies and getting away with it—despite the fact that the war was televised at the time and has been the subject of innumerable books and studies.

But now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War, Phillip Jennings finally sets the record straight. Jennings, who fought in Vietnam as a Marine pilot and later as a pilot for the CIA’s Air America, shatters the near universally accepted myths and politically correct lies that have obscured the truth about what happened in Vietnam for decades.

Jennings, who has made a lifetime’s study of the war, gives you the surprising truth, and backs it up with facts that the liberal pundits ignore. He demonstrates that the United States did not lose the Vietnam War—in fact, we won it. Far from failing dismally, the United States achieved its goal in Vietnam: we stopped the spread of Communism. Jennings explains how the cultural chaos of the 1960s and 1970s negatively influenced the Vietnam War—not vice versa. Without the sacrifices made and the courage displayed by our military in Vietnam, the world would be a very different place today. The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War reveals:

* Who won the war? The United States military lost more than 58,000 men in Vietnam; the North Vietnamese military lost more than 1.1 million—and Communism isn’t exactly rolling up the map of Asia any more
* How John F. Kennedy’s “firm stand against Communist aggression” took the form of an unclear, waffling policy that led to a series of blunders by liberalism’s “best and brightest” foreign policy and defense advisers
* How Richard Nixon effectively won the war, while rapidly withdrawing U.S. troops—only to watch a liberal Congress throw America’s victory away
* How liberal Democrats continue to try, outrageously, to present their scuttling of South Vietnam as moral and political wisdom

The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War at last reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781596985674
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 2/23/2010
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 149,052
  • Series: The Politically Incorrect Guides Series
  • Product dimensions: 9.06 (w) x 7.28 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Meet the Author

Phillip E. Jennings served in Vietnam with the United States Marine Corps, flying helicopters, and in Laos as a pilot for Air America. He is the author of the critically acclaimed comic novels Nam-A-Rama and Goodbye Mexico, and won the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society first prize for fiction with his short story, “Train Wreck in a Small Town.” A successful entrepreneur, he is currently CEO of Molecular Resonance Corporation, which has developed technology to spot and disarm improvised explosive devices. He lives with his family near Seattle, Washington.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 6, 2010

    Politically incorrect, but factually very correct

    This is an excellent book - a must read for anyone who prefers to become educated on the Vietnam War.

    During the war years, I was frustrated by the villainous way our media treated the United States. Our media clearly supported the Communist takeover, and encouraged the enemy to victory. Most Americans are clueless about what really took place. Ask any American where the Ho Chi Minh trail was located, and what its purpose was, and you'll see what I mean. Few have any knowledge of how important Vietnam was to Senator (and then President) Kennedy. This book includes his 1956 speech at the Conference on Vietnam.

    Liberals talk about this as an immoral war. There is nothing immoral about risking your life for the freedom of others. The most immoral thing about the war was the determination of our media and the liberal left (headed by Hanoi Jane) to lose at all costs - even after Nixon had secured military victory in 1973. Phillip Jennings walks the reader through the truths that the liberals do not want you to know.

    The author has done an excellent job of presenting balanced facts. He covers the things we did right, and he informs of key blunders you may not be aware of (such as the coup that ousted Diem). You won't find photos, nor get buried in intricate detail. You will, however, become totally immersed as he fills in the blanks of what we all should have learned years ago. I only wish his book were required reading in our schools.

    4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 27, 2010

    The definitive book on the Viet Nam war

    As a Viet Nam veteran I have read many books on the subject, usually coming away with a clear understanding that either they had never been there and didn't know squat, or that they had an overriding political agenda that prevented them recognizing or telling the truth. None of this applies to Mr. Jenning's outstanding book. This tells it like it was; this was a war that we won in spite of many idiots trying to declare otherwise, and in spite of the most inept leadership at the highest levels of our government. It was a war where traitors were rewarded and heroes vilified. I applaud Mr. Jennings' analysis, though perhaps he should steer clear of Viet Nam for a while longer! It is nice to see someone actually write history correctly; now if we could just get this book into our schools and universities...an extremely unlikely scenario!

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  • Posted May 21, 2010

    Should be required reading in schools.... LOVED it!

    What one should learn from this book is the effect propaganda played in the war, at least from the earliest American involvement to the present day. Throughout this book, there are examples of how propaganda was used by newmen to affect the war from the first to hit the streets of Saigon; by politicians and military who denied facts to alter the course of the war to fit their own prejudices; and by leftists and their sympathizing dupes for their concern for the aggressors and their unconcern toward the people of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. (After the 1975 takeover of South Vietnam by the North, these same concerned people washed their hands of the whole thing and ignored the plight of these peoples.)
    Only one error: p. 151 ... 'rubles and yen' should be 'rubles and yuan'.
    Also, between pp. 156 abnd 174 - how many false claims of VN service were there twelve or thirteen million?

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 27, 2010

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    Thanks God (and Mr.Jennings) for their Political Incorrectness!

    I think it's a honest thorough analysis of the American Left's pro-Communist strategy, with a tasty "brainfood" both in the text and in the book's generous bibliography. For me the book became a priceless development for my previous reading on the subject of the Vietnam War, like Ann Coulter's "Treason" or, say, John Stormer's "25 Years Later". As a Russian reader I may add that these treasonous efforts of the Left were not only disarming the free world, but simultaneously arming my Soviet leaders with bold ideas of their great future victories over the weak West. I can't call the hours over "The Guide" a happy reading, but then all its pages were certainly enlightening, informative and never dull. Rostislav, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

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