Although North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap admitted in a 1984 discussion with Robert S. McNamara that the first attack was deliberate, he denied that a second attack had ever taken place. McNamara insisted that the evidence clearly indicated there was an attack on August 4, and he continued to maintain so in his book In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons From Vietnam.
Who translated the Giap part of the interview?
My brother went into the service out of College in December 1966. After going through basic, and a stint in OCS, he ended up in the ASA. When he rotated back to our home which was 20 miles from the base, he began speaking to me about what was true and what was BS.
Needless to say I did not join the service as planned in 1971, I anxiously awaited the draft notice which did not come.
He gave me 2 books to read. None Dare Call it Conspiracy and None dare call it Treason. Along with a deep abiding distrust of the government side of any argument.
I wish he were still here, but he passed shortly after 9-11. He would have been a font of intelligent info.
In short, Vietnam was a scam, and the purpose was not to win anything, it was just a way to practice. Brown and Root was a Texas based LBJ donor don’t you know.
Check out Robert McNamara’s son who was at Stanford at the time. His son never served in Vietnam but he sent many sons, brothers and daughters to die there.