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A classified military history of Vietnam leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, used here as evidence of deception and unwinnability.
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Pentagon Papers
A classified military history of Vietnam leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, used here as evidence of deception and unwinnability.
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He uses the Pentagon Papers to define mission creep as gradual escalation from observers to advisors, trainers, and soldiers without public understanding of why escalation is happening.
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He says U.S. leadership knew early that Vietnam was unwinnable despite dropping more bombs in Vietnam in the 1960s than were dropped in World War II.
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Jiang says the Pentagon Papers exposed secret escalation, lack of public or congressional approval, and elite knowledge that the Vietnam War could not be won.
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"And it made three major points. The first point, is that American leadership, military leadership, has been expanding the war in Vietnam without public..."
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"Now, there's a very famous incident during this war called the Pentagon Papers in 1971. In 1971, a group of American analysts, okay? These..."
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"...against an enemy they really didn't know, okay? In 1971, the Pentagon Papers came out. And the Pentagon Papers was a history of America's..."
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"...way you were going to win this war. Okay? That's a Pentagon paper, second thing. The third thing is, okay, the question then is,..."
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"...we're staying in this war, okay? So to summarize what the Pentagon Papers said, okay? Three things. One is that the American government lied..."
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