Colonel Gregory Daddis

United States Military Academy

Tuesday, September 16, 2014  |  12:30 pm  |  Eastwoods Room, Texas Union

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But were senior war managers acting unethically by publicly highlighting the positive aspects of American strategy in Vietnam to minimize the war’s political costs? Were they violating the public trust? This presentation explores the “conversation gap” between official backchannel messages and public pronouncements of progress in the critical year before the 1968 Tet offensive. If wartime assessments appeared contradictory in the uncertain mosaic of Vietnam, was it wrong to accentuate the positive in public when private messages were less sanguine?

Colonel Gregory Daddis is a Professor of History at the United States Military Academy. He is an expert in U.S. and military history and specializes in the Vietnam War and unconventional warfare. He received his B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy, his M.A. from Villanova, and his PhD from UNC Chapel Hill in 2009.