Gregory A. Daddis is the USS Midway Chair in Modern US Military History at San Diego State University and has authored a trilogy of books on the American war in Vietnam with Oxford University Press.
Gregory A. Daddis
Articles
An Angry Book for an Angry Time
Gregory Daddis reviews Geoffrey Wawro’s “The Vietnam War: A Military History.”
The Fallacy of “The Turning Point” — A Critical Look at Mark Bowden’s History of the Battle of Huế
An otherwise admirable history of a single battle is hampered by a simplified thesis and excessive credit given to the “turning point theory” of history.
The “Savage” Menace: Reconsidering the Enemy Threat in American Foreign Policy
A retired Army colonel and West Point scholar says we put ourselves at risk by calling our enemies “savages.”
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