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Paperback The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs Book

ISBN: 1558497056

ISBN13: 9781558497054

The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs

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The image of the drug-addicted American soldier--disheveled, glassy-eyed, his uniform adorned with slogans of antiwar dissent--has long been associated with the Vietnam War. More specifically, it has persisted as an explanation for the U.S. defeat, the symbol of a demoralized army incapable of carrying out its military mission.

Yet as Jeremy Kuzmarov documents in this deeply researched book, popular assumptions about drug use in Vietnam are...

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