A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam is a book by Lewis Sorley.
Lewis Stone "Bob" Sorley III is an American intelligence analyst and military historian. Lewis Sorley was born in 1934, in West Point, New York, the son and grandson of officers in the United States Army who were both also West Point graduates. Sorley became an Eagle Scout in San Antonio, Texas in... 1950 and was presented the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award in 2009. He received his high school education at Texas Military Institute and was admitted to the United States Military Academy, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1956. He stayed on at the academy as an instructor and assistant professor of English until 1962. In 1963, he received an Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and was deployed to Vietnam, where he served as an executive officer until 1966. From 1967 until 1968, he served as assistant secretary of general staff, Office of the Chief of Staff and then commanded a tank battalion in West Germany until 1972. He taught on the faculty of military planning and strategy at the U.S. Army War College from 1973-1975, in which time he also completed a Master of Public Administration at Pennsylvania State University.more
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