... close range. An infantrymen could not destroy a village with grenades, but a fighter pilot could drop napalm on it. Caputo decided to volunteer for duty with a combat battalion ager working only a short time with the staff many because of boredom. All he could do was count casualties and he felt useless and a guilty about living in a relatively safe area, while other soldiers ... though he was sick of death and destruction. One time we Caputo is on duty he finds a village that has a detonating cord coming out of it, h! e then proceeds to fire a hamlet on the village without any concern ...

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... 20th, General William C. Westmoreland of the U.S. Army cabled Washington that he expected the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong to undertake an intensified countrywide effort, perhaps a maximum effort over a relatively short period. These events began to foreshadow the Vietnamese's coming psychological victory. In January of 1968, American forces captured a pair of NVA operation orders calling for an attack on Pleiku before ... shelling was what killed most civilians, however, and the architectural treasures of Hue were laid to waste. In March 1968, elements of the U.S Army's Ameri...

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... the available acreage to the peasants (Tucker 87). Instead he used most of his funding from the United States to construct elaborate Viet Cong eradication programs, such as his Strategic Hamlet program. He turned the people on himself through programs as such, relocating innocent peasants to hamlets, bearing a striking resemblance to concentration camps, where they were closely monitored and confined to ... that the war might end soon." (O"Brien 127). The Viet Minh were fighting against a common enemy, the Americans and their brutal southern regime. Although Diem's time as dictator was ...

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