Halberstam "Best and Brightest" book would raise sharp critism of military reporting, chain of command, and the ability to quantify "win or loss" progress reports; blistering critisms of the theory of containment and late recognition of western warfare tactics. Halberstam provided a bias favoritism of the Kennedy Administration protraying them as intellectual rationalist who recruited some of the most brillant academic minds to the team: McNamara, Bundy, and Rusk. Halberstam claims internal Intelligence battles would cause strong mistrust as he elaborates on state department visit to viet nam to gather accurate information relating to the Makong valley. Halberstam protrays Lydon Johnson as the Vice President who assumed command of a group of brillant Kennedy staffers after Kennedy's assassination. Johnson would continue the war in Vietnam. Nixon would face political pressure to reduce America's military commitment and eventual return soldiers home. [Learn More ...]

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