@patwater
Gonna reshare this one... Barbara Tuchmans book on sleepwalking into WW1 also feels very relevant
Nor, so far as appears in the mountains of memoranda, discussions and options flowing over the desks, was any long-range look taken at long-range strategy. Rather, policy developed in ad hoc spurts from month to month. A White House official of the time, asked in later years how the American interest in Southeast Asia was defined in 1961, replied that βit was simply a given, assumed and unquestioned.β https://paragraph.xyz/@pioneering-spirit/the-march-of-folly
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