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Jiang frames Vietnam as the formative trauma for the U.S.
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Jiang frames Vietnam as the formative trauma for the U.S. military: mass-force war created casualties, public protest, media scrutiny, and a belief among generals that democracy would not make the sacrifices empire required.
"And so a lot of the resources were shifted into special forces and that allowed more people to enter special forces, okay? Does that..."
"58,000 US soldiers died in this war. Three million, at least three million, Vietnamese died in this war. Two million of them were civilians,..."
"So the most famous story is something called the Mai Lai Massacre where American soldiers went into a Vietnamese village and killed everyone there,..."
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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