(Pressure From Above)

A common misconception is that Vietnam was lost because our civilian leaders mishandled the war and hawkish politicians were reluctantly forced to respond to the anti-war sentiment encouraged by a hostile mass media. The facts speak otherwise — the men at the top were not stupid. They had no intention of crippling Communism. From the very beginning, American leaders and their counterparts in the Soviet Union, China, and North Vietnam used the war as a means to build their new world order.