Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965 - Paperbackby Yuen Foong Khong (Author) From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the "lessons of history" as they contemplated taking their nation to war. Do these historical analogies actually shape policy, or are they primarily tools of political justification? Yuen Foong Khong argues that leaders use analogies not merely to justify policies but also to perform specific cognitive and information processing tasks