McNamara's Boys: Lost Innocence in Vietnam

How the US government deliberately sent thousands of mentally-disabled men into combat during the Vietnam War. A bonus episode and companion to Episode 12: "The Good Guys".

SOURCES:
Gregory, Hamilton. McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War. 2015.
Hsiao, Lisa. “Project 100,000: The Great Society’s Answer to Military Manpower Needs in Vietnam”. 1989.
Hastings, Sir Max. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy (1945-1975). 2018.
Turse, Nick. Kill Anything That Moves. 2013.
Charles Rivers Editors. The My Lai Massacre. 2015.
Jones, Howard. My Lai. 2015.
Fitzgerald, Frances. Fire In The Lake. 1972.
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. 1990.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices