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Podcast: The Fact Hunter
Episode: Classic Audio: The Perfect War - Technowar in Vietnam Part 1
Description: Our prelude to the Vietnam war podcast coming this Tuesday. James William Gibson shatters the misled assumptions behind both liberal and conservative explanations for America's failure in Vietnam. Gibson shows how American government and military officials developed a disturbingly limited concept of war -- what he calls "technowar" -- in which all efforts were focused on maximizing the enemy's body count, regardless of the means. Consumed by a blind faith in the technology of destruction, American leaders failed to take into account their enemy's highly effective guerrilla tactics. Indeed, technowar proved woefully inapplicable to the actual political and military...