"...I am now going to my grave with that lapse in moral courage."
Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief of Staff 1964-1968


The 1997 book, Dereliction of Duty, may become a critical treatise in the area of military ethics.[1] The research was
extensive (some 5 years), although it was primarily descriptive without incisive analysis or critique. Ironically, that may be the
most powerful aspect of the book. The facts and information are systematically laid out, and there is no doubt that the added
information will provide insights in both policy and military perspectives; the facts add weight to a number of previous theories.
Now, we may have a new theory--the Vietnam War would never have been fought if it had not been for the Joint Chiefs of
Staff (JCS): "The disaster in Vietnam was not the result of impersonal forces but a uniquely human failure, the responsibility for
which was shared by President Johnson, and his......

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