Triumph Regained

Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965–1968  is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential  Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965 . Like its predecessor, this book overturns the conventional wisdom using a treasure trove of new sources, many of them from the North Vietnamese side. Rejecting the standard depiction of U.S. military intervention as a hopeless folly, it shows America’s war to have been a strategic necessity that could have ended victoriously had President