Editing Melvin Laird (section)

==External links==
{{Commons category|Melvin Laird}}
* Laird Center [http://www.lairdcenter.org/melvinlaird/default.aspx?page=lairdbio Biography]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926041617/http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/Finding%20Aids/Laird.htm Melvin Laird Papers at the Gerald Ford Library]
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20051101012924/http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20051101faessay84604/melvin-r-laird/iraq-learning-the-lessons-of-vietnam.html Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam" by Melvin R. Laird.] – ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' Magazine article, November/December 2005 Issue.
* [https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo58541 Melvin Laird and the Foundation of the Post-Vietnam Military, 1969–1973] [[Office of the Secretary of Defense]]
* [https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgVsYWlyZBIGbWVsdmlu/ ANC Explorer]
* {{C-SPAN|5652}}

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