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I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion. I've been working on a project for the last couple years. Maybe I've been working on a project for 50 years.

I'm not sure exactly.

But in the middle of that project, I became curious about the 1960s.

I became very curious about the origins of the Vietnam War.

I became even more curious about a World War II general named Douglas MacArthur.

And the advice that McArthur gave JFK in 1961 and the same advice that McArthur gave to LBJ in 1964 as he lay on his deathbed.

And it just so happens through the magic of the Internet.

I found an article that caught my eye, an article that went into this discussion,

the famed general from World War II, giving advice to these two presidents

in the 1960s. One arguably listened. The other did not. And the author of that article

turned out to be a pretty interesting guy. His name, Mark Perry. Mark is an American author specializing in military

intelligence and foreign affairs analysis. Ten books to his name, quite accomplished, quite a

perspective, has dug in and done the research. I cannot claim to have read all of Mark's books.

In fact, I've not read any.

But I read that one article,

and I knew the man behind that article was going to be interesting.

And once I asked him on the show, I then realized,

oh, wow, he really has quite the background.

Without any further delay, let's jump right into my guest today, Mark Perry, and discuss

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