Lãnh Thổ Lãnh Hải Việt-Nam: 20251019 CDTL RMN Mem Ratliff Kissinger Washington 13 November 1973 D114

Lesson in Vietnam from Kissinger to Nixon: “when we made it “our war” we would not let the South Vietnamese fight it; when it again became “their war”, we would not help them fight it.”

(We also had trouble with excesses here: when we made it “our war” we would not let the South Vietnamese fight it; when it again became “their war,” we would not help them fight it. Ironically, we prepared the South Vietnamese for main force warfare after 1954 (anticipating another Korean-type attack), and they faced a political war; they had prepared themselves for political warfare after 1973 only to be faced with a main force invasion 20 years after it had been expected.)

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v10/d280

Lesson of Vietnam May 12 1975 by Henry A. Kissinger

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/vietnam/032400091-002.pdf

https://thebattleofkontum.com/extras/kissinger.html

“Richard M. Nixon and Kissinger on 3 August 1972,” Conversation 760-006, Presidential Recordings Digital Edition [Fatal Politics, ed. Ken Huges] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014-). URL:https://prde.upress.virginia.edu/conversations/4006748

https://player.vimeo.com/video/889937807?h=e44572c8f3&color=e57200&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/nixon-kissinger-and-the-decent-interval

https://player.vimeo.com/video/889937807?h=e44572c8f3&color=e57200&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

Discover the Truth at:

http://www.theblackvault.com

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-cias-vietnam-document-cd-rom/

Porter, William J.,

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Department of State from 1973 until 1974

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/under-secretary-for-political-affairs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Secretary_of_State_for_Political_Affairs

https://1997-2001.state.gov/about_state/history/officers/usecpol.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Porter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Algeria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_South_Korea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Saudi_Arabia

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/porter-william-james

Ratliff Rob Roy,

member, National Security Council staff

https://nixondirtytricks.com/rob-roy-ratliff

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201026388/rob-roy-ratliff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79M00467A000200020002-6.pdf

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/whstaff/staffr-s.pdf

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v35/d187

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v10/d93

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/rob-ratliff-obituary?id=1830327

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0204/1513346.pdf

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201026388/rob-roy-ratliff

Scowcroft, Brent,

General, USAF, Military Assistant to the President until 1973; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from August 1973 until 1975

https://warontherocks.com/2020/08/brent-scowcroft-and-american-military-intervention/

https://warontherocks.com/2020/08/blame-it-on-the-blob-how-to-evaluate-american-grand-strategy/

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/aspen-strategy-group/about-asg/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/piab/

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/bartholomew-sparrow/the-strategist/9781586489632/

http://web1.millercenter.org/poh/transcripts/ohp_1999_1112_scowcroft.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/politics/brent-scowcroft.html

https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/remembering-brent-scowcrofts-accomplishments-on-arms-control

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-08-13/scowcroft-model

https://archive.org/stream/towercommission00unit?ref=ol#mode/2up

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/253135/the-man-who-ran-washington-by-peter-baker-and-susan-glasser/9780385540551

https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/philip-zelikow/to-build-a-better-world/9781538764688/