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The Key to Failure: Laos and the Vietnam War, by Norman B. Hannah (Madison, 335 pp., $19.95)

About 21 years ago an envelope arrived on my desk in the White House from William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific. Enclosed was a “Top Secret” document of about thirty pages with no listed author, and a handwritten note from Bill: with his slightly arch humor he asked me as “our resident Clausewitz” for my views on the enclosure.

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The Key to Failure: Laos and the Vietnam War, by Norman B. Hannah (Madison, 335 pp., $19.95)

About 21 years ago an envelope arrived on my desk in the White House from William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific. Enclosed was a “Top Secret” document of about thirty pages with no listed author, and a handwritten note from Bill: with his slightly arch humor he asked me as “our resident Clausewitz” for my views on the enclosure.