After more than fifty years, new and explosive information is beginning to emerge from Presidential library files and CIA confidential records. Americans never knew what was happening in Vietnam and neither did the men who were on the ground doing the fighting and dying. Discipline became almost non-existent and fragging became a major issue as back home the United States approached a state of near revolution. The young were not willing to risk their lives for a cause they did not understand nor believe in. "Vietnam Exposed" traces the story from its beginning with the Catholic French planters and peasant slavery to the fight for their independence which led to the incursion of the communist agitators. The people of French Indochina were not communists. They were slaves of the Catholic Church trying to secure their freedom. They followed the leader who offered the best opportunity. America sided with the French exploiters and the peasants sided with the communists who offered them an opportunity to break free. America did not stop the spread of communism, it aided and abetted it by flawed policies and inept leadership. This book exposes all the flaws and mistakes which were perpetrated by our politicians with flawed logic and advice who did not know or understand history or try to find peaceful paths to a solution. We have seen a repetition in Iraq, Afghanistan and now spreading throughout the Far East as our flawed and ill advised actions have put us back in the same defensive posture of fighting a war which cannot be won but only agitate and inflame a large portion of the earth's population. This is the book which will allow you a much clearer understanding of why our attempts at spreading democracy are so often failures and do much more harm than good. America is the dream of much of the people of the world but it has its flaws in trying too hard to be all things to all people. What works for Americans is not the best solution for the rest of the world and we must understand that before we go too far and lose it all.
About the Author: Autobiography of a Gentle Man Frank Newby was a child of the depression. He grew up without the finer things of life. Among his earliest memories were of receiving an orange for Christmas at six years old. The first one he had ever eaten. He had never lived with electricity until he went into the service. He was milking the cows at nine and plowing with a team of horses and a walking plow at 11. He was born in the Bible Belt of the Midwest and had his Sunday clothes which went on immediately before leaving for church and came off immediately upon returning home. He grew up on fried chicken and mashed potatoes. Life was simple and pure and then came the great war. His Dad was drafted and at 15 he was left at home with a farm, a mother and two younger brothers to care for. He was drafted and served two years active and five and half as a reservists in the Navy. He used his G.I.Bill to achieve a bachelor and master degree in Education from Butler University and left immediately after college to go west and teach on the Zuni Indian Reservation. He became an elementary principal and spent 11 years in education before leaving to find a job that paid enough to raise a family. He spent the next 30 years as a textbook salesman, traveling the west from Arizona to Montana and points in between. On retirement he moved to an Indiana farm to get back to nature. He left the farm when he couldn't get on and off the tractor anymore and started writing books. To date he has 20 books published and three more on the shelves ready to be polished and published. Frank is an observer of humanity. He sees the travesties and the glories of the human race. He is a commentator and reporter of mankind and all of its fallacies and faults. In the "golden years" he has become a historian and has a large reservoir of little known or never heard stories of history from the ancient to the present. He struggles to maintain a neutrality in the question of race, religion and politics. He has climbed the mountains of Colorado and hiked the desert trails of the southwest. He does Intarsia with exotic woods as a pastime hobby. He now resides in the sunshine of the high deserts of the southwest. The body has slowed down but the mind is still in overdrive. He has been referred to as a Renaissance man. He maintains the core beliefs of a simpler and gentler world in which life was less harried and hectic. He can be found on Amazon.com or on your Kindle reader.