How The Vietnam War Shaped 50 Years Of Foreign Policy

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Mark Moyar, the William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to reflect on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and discuss the effect the Vietnam War had on American foreign policy and global politics.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:22.0	I'm Matt Kittles, senior elections correspondent at The Federalist, and your experience
0:27.0	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:30.1	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:35.2	Follow us on X at FDRLST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your
0:40.0	podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is
0:45.6	Mark Moyer, William P. Harris, Professor of Military History, Hillsdale College. Hard to believe
0:52.3	it's been 50 years since the fall of Saigon on April 30th,
0:56.3	1975. To mark the occasion, Hillsdale College's Center for Military History and Strategy,
1:02.7	along with Hillsdale in D.C., hosted a conference on the Vietnam War.
1:08.3	Professor Moyer joins us with some perspective on the war that tore America
1:12.8	apart, scars that remain, and the Vietnam of today. Thank you, sir, so much for joining us on this
1:20.1	edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. That's great to be with you today. Absolutely, quite an event
1:25.4	last week with some of the best and brightest minds on history,
1:29.9	global affairs, getting together. But I'll begin with the ending. It's amazing, truly,
1:38.9	to think that it has been 50 years on the fall of Saigon when some 9,000 individuals were airlifted out of that war-torn
1:48.0	city, where have we gone since the end of that war?
1:57.5	Yeah, it's been strange and I think in many ways, somber journey.
2:03.3	You know, I think one of the things that we really ought to think about and we talked a lot about over the past week is that there was a real, extremely damaging, deadly outbreak of further violence after the war.
2:20.8	And I think a lot of Americans were too ready to simply wipe their hands of it.
2:25.9	But the number of people killed after the war is actually greater than the number
2:31.4	killed during the war.
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