The failure in Vietnam was not micromanagement, but a failure of civilian control. No one in the civilian establishment ever went to the Joint Chiefs and asked them how the hell they planned to win.
Gautam
I don't need a discourse on this, please no ;-)
but I've been hearing people talking about this lately, almost sounds like talking points: America won every battle in Vietnam, they had massive superiority everywhere but the problem was they couldn't attack very obvious military targets, they were hamstrung by high level officers, president Johnson once said "they can't bomb an outhouse without my approval":
http://www.afa.org/magazine/editorial/06edit95.html
captured NV officers knew they would win, because they were winning the public opinion side.
Just wondering if I read your statement wrong, or I'm hearing the history wrong.
Kevin T. - VRWC
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