DERELICTION OF DUTY

I just finished reading H.R. McMaster's Dereliction of Duty. This is an absolutely must-read for anyone who wants to understand how America blundered into the Vietnam War. McMaster's devastating account of how LBJ, Secretary of Defense MacNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff failed in their duty to the American people is a cautionary tale that should be mandatory reading for every officer in the US military who hopes one day to be a member of the JCS or in any position to influence US war-making policy as well as anyone who hopes to be President of the United States. I hope George W. Bush has read it, as well as Rumsfeld and General Meyers. This book also provides plenty of evidence for those of us who believe LBJ was the worst President of the 20th Century.