The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting: The Vietnam War & post ... - Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.) - Google Books

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Democracies cannot sustain unpopular wars. Vietnam was the most divisive for war for the American people. The enemy's tenacity was not accounted for in U.S. war plans until there was frustration in the field, skepticism in the press, and splintered support…