Friday 9 November 2018
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McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War
I've recently been working with people who have complex needs so I have a grasp of what it potentially means to send a five year old into a war situation.
This is an angle of the Vietnam war that I hadn't come across before and it's very moving.
Robert Strange McNamara ordered 100,000 below intelligence recruits to Vietnam every year to make up the shortfall from draft dodgers who were excused from military service because their wealthy parents had excuses like they just had teeth braces fitted.
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