, an influential historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, died Nov. 27, 2022, at age 79. Hammond’s official Army studies of the Vietnam War posited the view that rising casualty rates and poor execution of the war dimmed American public support for it, not exclusively negative media coverage—a view that rankled many in the military and political establishments. Born in
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