397 The Pentagon Papers: United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967

US National Archives. (1969). Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force. [48 PDFs] US National Archives. Available at this link (Accessed 2020-08-01).

Subjects (Group/Subheading): Vietnam/Nature of the Vietnam war

One liner: The US was driven by militant ideology, not rational analysis

Date Published: 2011-06-01   Acquired: 2020-08-11

Source (Type/Source/Notes): Government / US National Archives / Complete release with no redactions.

Notes:

Complete release with no redactions. No one reads the whole thing - it's 7,000 pages in 48 pdf files. Several books have been published with summaries although the original report would have been heavily redacted at the time. The point is that the US knew that the war was unwinnable from the beginning. Report covers 1940-1968.

See the abridged edition for a more readable version.

Related items:

509 The Pentagon Papers: Abridged Edition

Citations:

[Cite] Community: 1945-1973 Canada and Vietnam

Item last updated: 2021-11-02