A review by tsharris
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse

5.0

Devastatingly powerful and if there's any justice will lead to a reconsideration of the US war in Vietnam that lasts. The US war in Vietnam was, in short, absurd - politicians in Washington talking about winning hearts and minds in South Vietnam even as they unleashed an army of poorly trained draftees in a country they didn't understand and had no interest to understand. Combine that with pressure to increase kill counts - and the technology with which to increase kill counts - and you have the makings of a tragedy in South Vietnam, which Turse documents here.

I hope the Japanese right doesn't discover this book, because it will strengthen their arguments about the hypocrisy of American criticism of imperial Japan. (Turse notes in passing, referencing a John Dower essay, that US war planners studied how the Japanese army fought Mao's guerrillas in China.)