This week on the Lectures in History podcast, Hillsdale College History Professor Mark Moyer

discusses competing interpretations of the Vietnam War regarding the inevitability of the war

and its outcome. He has written extensively about the Vietnam War, U.S. military history,

and the role of the United States military

abroad. Currently, Mark Moyer is Hillsdale College's William P. Harris Chair of Military History.

Previously, he was the director of the Office of Civilian Military History at USAID, from 2018 to 2019.

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Professor Mark Moyers' lecture begins in a moment.

Today, our subject is going to be the major schools of thought on the Vietnam War.

And as we talked about in the last lecture, the stakes in the debate over the Vietnam War are very high.

For many decades, and to some extent till today, the competing interpretations of the war

have dominated American debates over American national security strategy and over American

national identity.

And so for this reason, among others,

the animosity between the two camps

has been quite strong.

Now Michael Court in the section you read for today

spells out the two main schools of thought

that Orthodox and the revisionist.

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