[lit-ideas] Re: On underestimating America
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:29:20 -0800
On Feb 21, 2020, at 7:11 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
David,
Is this the Keegan book you are referring to: The Second World War,
published by Viking, 1989?
No, the title is, “The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare”
Viking, 1988.
In The Shattered Sword, published in 2005 it seems that Parshall and Tully
are breaking new ground: providing significant Japanese records about Midway,
in English, for the first time.
I agree. The Japanese records revised understanding.
If I was a dumb 17-year-old at the time the Vietnam War started (as I was
when the Korean war started) I probably would have still enlisted in the
Marine Corps. In my case the Korean war was winding down before I got to
Korea. That wouldn’t have been the case in Vietnam. L
Um, no. Two very different wars. Going to Vietnam twice last year was
enlightening. You have to look hard to find evidence not that the war
happened—there are museums full of equipment—but that the outcome was
supposedly some kind of domino added. They don’t like China and I noted no
evidence of Russian influence. People who know the economy and politics of
Vietnam better than I do will not doubt be able to explain what I missed.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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