The Vietnam War was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/done-in-a-day-telex-from-the-fall-of-saigon-elisa-tamarkin-book-review?utm_source=voante&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhvoante&utm_content=null