Crew members ride a U.S. Chinook helicopter over the mountains after leaving Cop Cherokee base in Kherwar district in Logar province Tuesday. ReutersFrom the Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON -- The struggle to set the future course of the Afghan war is becoming a battle of two books -- both suddenly popular among White House and Pentagon brain trusts.
The two draw decidedly different lessons from the Vietnam War. The first book describes a White House in 1965 being marched into an escalating war by a military viewing the conflict too narrowly to see the perils ahead. President Barack Obama recently finished the book, according to administration officials, and Vice President Joe Biden is reading it now.
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My Comment: Leaders and Generals are always being accused of preparing and/or fighting the wars of the future with the mindset of how the past war was fought.
If this Wall street Journal article is accurate, I guess we can say that President Obama's focus on the Afghanistan War is based on what he thinks happened in the Vietnam war.
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