Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
There’s a reason Khe Sanh still gets brought up in war colleges, smoky VFW halls, and late-night strategy debates. It wasn’t just a battle. It was a live-fire experiment in something we didn’t have a name for yet—what we now call fifth-generation warfare. Not bullets versus bullets. Not even armies versus armies. It was narrative versus reality. And narrative won.
Nobody understood how to navigate the endless battle to control what and how we think better than COL James N. “Nick” Rowe, who spent five years as a prisoner of the Viet Cong.
Well, it’s been 50 years from when I left the Vietnam War behind so allow me to tell you an abbreviated history of our most flawed and fabled war.
Having learned nothing from Martin Luther King Jr., Joe Biden commemorated MLK day by threatening his fellow citizens.
I bet you didn’t know that 165 fiercely anti-communist Montagnards were rescued from work-labor slavery, torture, and apparently worse at the hands of combined Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces, by
I harbor little love or respect for Hollywood or it’s spawn, but I can still appreciate movies as an art form and how they often point to literary works, pieces of history and culture, that are worth remembering. Take “Apocalypse Now,” for example. Through that one film—lauded as one of cinema’s best, yet tiresome and …