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How the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley Changed the Course of the Vietnam War

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Fifty years ago today, one of the Vietnam war’s most ferocious battles broke out in the Ia Drang Valley. But the battle’s true toll would prove to be the hubris it bred in U.S. commanders.

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