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Throughout the non-Communist world, and particularly in the USA, thoughtful people remain haunted by America’s humiliating defeat in Indo-China. How could a so-called super-power, pouring hundreds of thousands of troops and billions of dollars in military equipment and supplies into that campaign, have suffered such abject failure? How could America and her allies have foundered so miserably against local Communist forces that seemed not nearly so well equipped?
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Chapter 5 Political Malaise
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Wilhelm, D. (1977). Political Malaise. In: Creative Alternatives to Communism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15745-7_5
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