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<v Speaker 1>Hello, and welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich.

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<v Speaker 1>A new historical book is being released this month. It's

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<v Speaker 1>called Out Maneuvered, America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare From Vietnam

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<v Speaker 1>to Afghanistan. The author is James A. Warren. There's no

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<v Speaker 1>question that America has led the world in war fighting

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<v Speaker 1>over the last couple of centuries. But historian and foreign

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<v Speaker 1>policy analyst James Warren is looking at the failures that

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<v Speaker 1>occurred from Vietnam to Afghanistan, and he makes a very

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<v Speaker 1>strong argument that misguided foreign policy, ineffective intelligence, and lack

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<v Speaker 1>of military options on the ground have led to wars

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<v Speaker 1>with endless fighting and either stalemates or actual loss in conflict.

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<v Speaker 1>The author points out that many politicians and leaders began

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<v Speaker 1>ignoring the realities of war in the nineteen sixties, wars

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<v Speaker 1>that pitted the United States not against harsh political systems,

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<v Speaker 1>but in uphill struggles against religion and ideology, where the

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<v Speaker 1>old idea of nation building just doesn't cut it. Outmaneuvered

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<v Speaker 1>America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare From Vietnam to Afghanistan a

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<v Speaker 1>new book by historian James Warren. The book Club wz

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<v Speaker 1>Boston's news radio