The Vietnam War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Wawro
The Vietnam War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Wawro
The Vietnam War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Wawro
Listening to America Podcast, episode 1630, Dec. 17, 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMwABFJQ_Kk
Clay welcomes University of North Texas historian Geoffrey Wawro for a discussion of the War in Vietnam (1961–1975), which cost more than 58,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of deaths in North and South Vietnam. Wawro, the author of seven books on the history of war, explains how a superpower got into a quagmire in a small Asian country. Why did Lyndon Johnson escalate the war between 1964 and 1968, when President John F. Kennedy made it clear that he would wind down America’s involvement after he was re-elected in 1964? As the British essayist Christopher Hitchens insisted, is Henry Kissinger a war criminal? What was Richard Nixon’s role in prolonging the agony? How should we assess Secretary of War Robert McNamara? Absent politics, could the war theoretically have been won by the United States and its reluctant allies?
A Military History of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Wawro
The Vietnam War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Wawro
Converging Dialogues Podcast, episode 390, Dec. 4, 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kf2X7Z2PNI
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Geoffrey Wawro about the Vietnam War. They discuss why the U.S. chose to get involved in Vietnam, Eisenhower’s approach, JFK’s approach, and the attempted coups in Vietnam. They talk about the domino theory, McNamara, U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1964/1965, the draft, high casualties of 1967/1968, public sentiment, LBJ not running for re-election, Nixon’s approach, legacy of the Vietnam War, and many other topics.
Interview on The Vietnam War with Ryan Morfin
The Vietnam War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Wawro
Interview on The Vietnam War with Ryan Morfin
Non-Beta Alpha Podcast on the Vietnam War, Season 4, episode 15, Dec. 2024.
https://revolverpodcasts.com/shows/non-beta-alpha/?lang=en
Was the Vietnam War Unwinnable?
Two extended interviews with John Batchelor about my book A Mad Catastrophe.
Interview on The Vietnam War with Ryan Morfin
We’re joined by Geoffrey Wawro, author of “The Vietnam War: A Military History.” We discuss whether the American war in Vietnam was a war of choice, pursued for all the wrong reasons. Shedding light on the inner workings of three presidential administrations and their field commanders, we look at political power, its limits, and the devastation that arises when power is compounded by willful delusion and carelessness in the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon.
https://www.parthenonpodcast.com/history-unplugged-podcast/was-the-vietnam-war-unwinnable
D-Day: The Tide Turns
Two extended interviews with John Batchelor about my book A Mad Catastrophe.
Two extended interviews with John Batchelor about my book A Mad Catastrophe.
I appear in multiple episodes of this award-winning 12-part series on D-Day and the Liberation of Europe.
Two extended interviews with John Batchelor about my book A Mad Catastrophe.
Two extended interviews with John Batchelor about my book A Mad Catastrophe.
Two extended interviews with John Batchelor about my book A Mad Catastrophe.
The John Batchelor Show two-part interview on A Mad Catastrophe