Nov 1, 2017 2 min read

Author, professor and Vietnam War expert Gregory Daddis will present, “Withdrawal: America’s Final Years in Vietnam,” at Washington & Jefferson College at 7 p.m. Thursday.

The talk will be held in Yost Auditorium in the Howard J. Burnett Center and is free and open to the public.

Daddis specializes in the history of the Vietnam War and the Cold War Era. He has written four books, including his most recent, “Withdrawal: Reassessing America’s Final Years in Vietnam,” which debuted in early October. Through his writing, Daddis offers a reinterpretation of American strategy during the Vietnam War and dispels major myths surrounding conflict.

The lecture is sponsored by the W&J History Department with financial support from the college’s National Endowment for the Humanities Fund, and is organized by Assistant Professor of History David Kieran, Ph.D.

“More than any other event in the twentieth century, the Vietnam War has defined how Americans think about the United States’ contemporary foreign policy commitments,” said Kieran. “Understanding the Vietnam War in all of its complexity is essential to our goal of becoming citizens who are capable of engaging in meaningful debate over those issues.”

Prior to joining the faculty at Chapman University, Daddis was chief of the American History Division in the Department of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point and is a retired U.S. Army colonel, having served in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.