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Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • military would not solve the problem, such as cutting the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Sometimes they were wrong. They were spectacularly wrong on Cambodia, because the analysts said that the supplies coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail were enough to satisfy the needs
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • privately proposes a decisive strategy in early 1967: Cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, hook through North Vietnam, get the sanctuaries in Laos and Cambodia. No response from the Commander in Chief. Essentially Lyndon preferred to fight that war and talk about