Recently I was reading a Vietnam-era book---can't remember the source now---but it was saying that the Vann/Sheehan myth of the Vietnam War was total crap. For ex., it said that Vann's claim that the ARVNs were "cowards" and would "tip off the enemy" so they wouldn't have to spring an ambush was BS---that Vann routinely disregarded ARVN intelligence that showed him exactly where the VC were. The author didn't like Vann at all.
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