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DEEP WATER, DARK SECRETS: REASSESSING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT – Part 4

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By 1984 the waters had been sufficiently muddied as to the legitimacy of the evidence pointing to a second attack, and with it, incidentally, the…

DEEP WATER, DARK SECRETS: REASSESSING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT – Part 3

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Part 1: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/deep-water-dark-secrets-reassessing-historiography-tonkin-gulf-incident-part-1.html Part 2: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/deep-water-dark-secrets-reassessing-historiography-tonkin-gulf-incident-part-2.html Equally helpful in trying to unravel the Tonkin mystery at the time was John Galloway’s 1970 work The Gulf of Tonkin…

DEEP WATER, DARK SECRETS: REASSESSING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT – Part 2

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JOHN MORELLO, PH.D. SENIOR PROFESSOR OF HISTORY DEVRY UNIVERSITY ADDISON, IL Part 1: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/deep-water-dark-secrets-reassessing-historiography-tonkin-gulf-incident-part-1.html When Maddox first appeared in the Tonkin Gulf on August 1, 1964,…

DEEP WATER, DARK SECRETS: REASSESSING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT – Part 1

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JOHN MORELLO, PH.D. SENIOR PROFESSOR OF HISTORY DEVRY UNIVERSITY ADDISON, IL It wasn’t long after the events of August 2-4, 1964 that questions arose about…