Today Was Not a Good Day in U.S. History
June 26, 2016
On June 26, 1917, the first U.S. troops landed in France to fight in WWI. Also, on June 26, 1965, Gen. William Westmoreland, senior U.S. military commander in Vietnam, was given formal authority to commit American troops to battle. When will we ever learn?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
The End of Air Power?