“Clarke describes the experiences of himself and his colleagues in the battles around the Khe Sanh Combat base in 1968, during the Vietnam War. He looks at the decision-making at multiple levels surrounding the battle, which he judges to have been a bloody tactical victory and a strategic defeat for the United States.”

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“Expendable Warriors reveals a little-known chapter in the story of the siege of Khe Sanh–how the battle really began and who was targeted in the first and biggest North Vietnamese assault in the opening round of an epic clash.”

Joseph L. Galloway, co-author: “We Were Soldiers Once…and Young” and “Triumph Without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War.”