Max Boot | The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Recorded Feb 1, 2018
Direct Download:
20180201-maxboot.mp3
Watch the video here.
Referred to as one of the “world’s leading authorities on armed conflict” by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, military historian and foreign-policy analyst Max Boot is the author of The Savage Wars of Peace, War Made New, and the New York Times bestselling Invisible Armies, a centuries-spanning look at guerilla warfare. He serves as the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Echoing current-day entanglements and unlearned lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Road Not Taken tells the story of a legendary CIA operative and his visionary but ignored “hearts and minds” roadmap to an American victory in the Vietnam War.
Other Great Podcasts
- Ezekiel J. Emanuel | Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?
- Chris Wallace | Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
- Stacey Abrams | Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
- Donna Rifkind | The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood
- Imani Perry In Conversation with Kiese Laymon: On the Uprising since George Floyd's Murder and Black Struggles for Freedom in the United States
- Lauren Francis-Sharma | Book of the Little Axe