George J. Veith, PhD, is a former U.S. Army Captain who served in armor units in the United States and Germany from 1979–1986. He earned his PhD in History from Monash University and is the author of several books on the Vietnam War including, most recently, Drawn Swords in a Distant Land: South Vietnam’s Shattered Dreams (Encounter Press, 2021). He has testified before Congress on the POW/MIA accounting mission, and presented numerous papers at scholarly conferences on the Vietnam War.