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Mark Moyer holds the Harris Chair in history at Hillsdale College.

He has also taught at the U.S. Marine Corps University and been a fellow at Joint Special

Operations University and Texas A&M.

He is the author of Triumph Foraken, the Vietnam War, 1954, 1965. We now have the next volume of that history,

Triumph Regained, the Vietnam War, 1965, 1968, which is, I guess, the third part of what's going to be,

from what I can tell, one of the major historical studies of that conflict for a long, long time.

This is our topic today. Welcome, Professor Moyer.

Thanks for having me on.

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