Losing Vietnam: How America Abandoned Southeast Asia

An intelligence officer stationed in Southeast Asia offers a "detailed, insightful, documented, and authentic account" of US policy failure in the region (Lewis Sorley, author of Westmoreland).

In the early 1970s, the United States began to withdraw combat forces from Southeast Asia. Though the American government promised to support the South Vietnamese and Cambodian forces in their continued fight against the Viet Cong, the funding was drastically reduced over time. The strain on America...