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Herbert's "Soldier"
Oct. 21st, 2009 12:45 pmJust finished reading Anthony Herbert's "Soldier". The main thesis of the book can be expressed as "had there been more commanders like me in Vietnam, we wouldn't have lost the damn war." He's probably right. The pro and con comments on Amazon are also enlightening.
An opinion popular on the right, with which I mostly agree, is that the war was lost in the media, rather than on the battlefield. Nevertheless, had the US Army operated the way Lt. Col. Herbert wanted it to, it would have been much harder to lose it in the media.
(The appropriate Russian expression is "просрали войну.")
An opinion popular on the right, with which I mostly agree, is that the war was lost in the media, rather than on the battlefield. Nevertheless, had the US Army operated the way Lt. Col. Herbert wanted it to, it would have been much harder to lose it in the media.
(The appropriate Russian expression is "просрали войну.")
