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Not surprising, given the heightened emotional atmosphere of the war, attempts to get my analysis published proved frustrating. My first attempt to formalize my perceptions came in1971, motivated by my reading of two articles that seemed thoroughly wrong-headed when viewed from the perspective of my knowledge of the two campaigns. As my knowledge of the war in Vietnam increased, the striking differences between the two conflicts became more evident and, given the horrifying results of what I was seeing in Vietnam, more distressing. Each day, after reading about the army’s successful work in the Philippines, I could not avoid comparing the campaign I was studying with the one that I was watching on TV. From 1964 to 1967 the contrasts between the war in Vietnam and the army’s campaign in the Philippines were vivid and repeatedly before me as I left my research in the Duke library for a look at the evening television news.
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