1983. Just about everything that could go wrong, did go wrong that year. You still had a young Reagen Presidency, still building on it's promise to rebuild the military as well as SDI. read more
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Civil War soon erupted with North Vietnam supporting a communist insurgency known as the Viet Cong in the South. The U.S. viewed this struggle in purely Cold War, communist vs. capitalist, terms, ignoring its more nationalist character,. This blinded it to two important facts. read more