Not since the Vietnam War has security in Asia seemed so fragile. By the time the United States withdrew after a decade of combat in Indochina, an estimated 1 million to 3 million Vietnamese and more than 58,000 American soldiers had been killed, U.S. domestic politics was in tatters, years of stagflation were just beginning, and many observers around the world believed that the Soviet Union was winning the Cold War. Across........

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