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Q and A with former UN security official Gordon Goldstein on Afghanistan and lessons learned in Vietnam [video 27 minutes, 26 seconds]

Courtesy of Kathryn Jones from the The Massachusetts School of Law, here is a recent video of a special q and a with former UN security official Gordon Goldstein on Afghanistan and the lessons learned in Vietnam.

While Sorley’s book A Better War has been passed around the Pentagon, Goldstein’s Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam, has been circulating around the White House and is now being read by President Obama.
Read entire article at The New Nixon