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Military Choices
(U.S. News & World Report, 1965)

Events are moving now toward a military showdown in Vietnam – with a decision to be made by combat.

The question at this time is whether the coming crisis will be resolved in South, middle or North Vietnam. As the showdown approaches, the U.S. finds itself involved in three forms of war in Southeast Asia:


• An anti-guerrilla war in southern South Vietnam.


• A base-defense war in northern South Vietnam.


• An anti-logistics war in southern North Vietnam.


The military man who penned this article weighs all these scenarios and also discusses the nuclear option.

The Un-Secret Secrets
(United States News, 1945)

To get a sense as to how thoroughly the Japanese diplomatic codes had been compromised, we recommend that you read the attached article. It is composed entirely of the chit-chat that took place between the government functionaries in Tokyo, their diplomats in Washington, their spies in Hawaii and their representatives in Berlin.


The article winds up explaining that the one vital communication that contained the information regarding the day of Japan’s attack was not translated until December 8.

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Our French Inheritance
(United States News, 1954)

The U.S. is going to shoulder the job of saving what is left of Indo-China from the Communists…Congress is unlikely to approve additional funds. South Vietnam isn’t a good-enough risk to be worth much bigger American investment. Everything may go down the drain in 19 months.

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