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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: AMERICA IN VIETNAM: WHEN THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST GO WRONG
Description: How do you explain how well-intentioned, patriotic, bright people make poor judgments that lead to so much suffering?
Historian and U.S. Naval Academy Professor Brian VanDeMark joins the podcast to discuss his acclaimed new book, Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam.Â
How do advances in cognitive psychology help explain how intelligent, well-intentioned leaders led America into the tragedy of Vietnam? What lessons does this hold for our own era?
In this podcast, Brian VanDeMark talks about his book, discussing how factors such as incomplete information, unchallenged assumptions, lack of creative thinking, and short-sightedness led to...