In the Aftermath of War
What the post-1975 history of the Vietnam War should teach us about the days, months, and years after the United States leaves Afghanistan
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As the military situation in Afghanistan began to unspool at the end of July, and comparisons to the United States 1975 evacuation of Saigon proliferated, I wanted to know more. So I reached for Amanda Demmer’s After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) to think ...
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