re: #423 lizardofid

Yes.That was an excellent example of the danger for our country, when a president’s “generals” adapt strategy, to fit his political needs.

I’m not sure that’s quite an accurate assessment: I think the blame goes both ways. As much as the military tried to cover their “political” bases wrt to dealing with LBJ over Vietnam, Johnson also placed a great deal of reliance on the Pentagon’s war-planning and war-making strategies to achieve a “win” - or at least he did until the Tet Offensive in 1968, after which the generals could only suggest deploying even MORE troops (more than the 500,000 [!!] already in-theater) as a “strategy”. After which even LBJ started to see the light….