I do hate to break this to you but that is a book about airplanes,

I know it's a book about a fighter-bomber pilot, with a great deal in
it about the extreme restrictions he had to follow. Very far from the
unrestricted use of power you speak of.

Almost every day of the time I spent in Vietnam was in the field,
because it spared me the cost of hotels, laundry (we didn't wash), and
food (someone was always willing to replenish my C-rations).

I never witnessed an atrocity, either by the Americans or by the ARVN.
(Or indeed by the Viet Cong.) It was as clean and as genteel as ever a
war could have been.

So I know something about the life of a footsoldier in Vietnam, and
not from books.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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