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In his second public contribution to ending the American intervention in Vietnam, Daniel Ellsberg brings together and revises his papers that best explain US policy and strategies during the war.
Drawing upon his virtually unique range of experience as a participant, field observer, analyst, and critic, Papers on the WarâŠ
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A collection of essays that show that Ellsbergâs decision to reveal the Pentagon Papers was not an emotional impulse but a rational culminating point.
He went to Vietnam on several occasions, including as an advisor on pacification programs, and devoured official documents: he was the firstâpossibly onlyâperson to read the full set of the Pentagon Papers at least once. It was on the basis of this new evidence that he revised his thinking, concluding that the war was âfirst⊠a problem; then⊠a stalemate; then⊠a crime.â Also, he trained as an economist, and thereâs a kind of game theoryâŠ
From Aurélie's list on the life and times of Daniel Ellsberg.
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