Just curious if anyone else is watching this Ken Burns doc running on PBS? I'm on episode 5 right now. Really enjoying it. What a quagmire that was. Great film footage and lots of interesting LBJ tapes. Amazing the level of doubt most everyone in the administration had about our ability to win, yet the complete different public comments they would make about how "well it was going."
The emphasis on body count being the metric for judging success was also interesting. Our focus on "winning hearts and minds" as an objective which totally failed also very enlightening. The people we were there to help - the South Vietnamese - didn't want us there. I was a young kid while all this was going on so never fully understood at the time. This doc has me wanting to read/view more about it.
Overall think it's been pretty well done.
Any other recommendations about documentaries on Vietnam? I'd like to compare and contrast.
The emphasis on body count being the metric for judging success was also interesting. Our focus on "winning hearts and minds" as an objective which totally failed also very enlightening. The people we were there to help - the South Vietnamese - didn't want us there. I was a young kid while all this was going on so never fully understood at the time. This doc has me wanting to read/view more about it.
Overall think it's been pretty well done.
Any other recommendations about documentaries on Vietnam? I'd like to compare and contrast.