Hunt '45 Pens "Losing Vietnam"

Major General (Ret) Ira A. Hunt, Jr. '45, author of The 9th Division in Vietnam: Unparalleled and Unequaled, has published Losing Vietnam: How America Abandoned Southeast Asia as part of the AUSA Battles and Campaigns Book Series. Hunt effectively demonstrates that America's lack of resolve and support in the period 1973-1975 doomed South Vietnam and Cambodia to defeat. As Deputy Commander of the United States Support Activities Group in Thailand during this period, Hunt met frequently with senior military leaders of South Vietnam and Cambodia and had access to all Southeast Asia operational reports. Losing Vietnam offers a valuable eyewitness perspective of that period, making clear that it was America, tiring of its involvement and withdrawing the necessary support, that evoked the loss of Vietnam. Dr. Lewis Sorley III '56, also an author, declared that Losing Vietnam is the most detailed, insightful, documented, and authentic account of that 1973-1975 period.