![]() ![]() and UN forces invaded North Korea and the Chinese intervened. He rightly feared a repeat of the Korean War debacle when the U.S. Johnson’s decision was not completely unsound. This gave the Communists abundant flexibility in how they waged their war against South Vietnam. This decision is often criticized because it allowed the North Vietnamese to have a form of military sanctuary in North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia (an issue relevant to today’s war in Afghanistan). Stoker applied the “ Test” to his new book, Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present, and reported the following: of my book examines the reasons for and the effects of President Lyndon Johnson’s decision to restrict American ground forces to operations in South Vietnam. The author or editor of eleven books, his Clausewitz: His Life and Work (2014), is on the British Army professional reading list. ![]() Donald Stoker was Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College's Monterey Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, from 1999 until 2017. ![]()
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