“So a video of a single army unit burning a village...”
The fake media goes all the way back to the beginning of the written word I imagine. And certainly was around in the 60’s helping the commies.
That footage seems “fake”. In one scene it shows our troops walking away from a village (well, at least several huts) that are ablaze with a fury. I suppose doused with fuel, a grenade - did they have phosphorus grenades? It looks something like that. Anyway, what one might imagine an enemy village might look like after we found it and cleared it out.
The images of the women and children putting out little spot fires with their buckets - not so much. Perhaps fires due to a nearby firefight or nearby bombs or artillery throwing out burning debris. But I would hope our troops would do a better job of burning an enemy village than tossing a few matches on the roof and then walking away, leaving the locals to fight the fires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_and_destroy
Yup, ‘Search and Destroy’ was a myth as were ‘Zippo’ missions...
We’ll make you like us even if we have to burn your house and food.
The local villagers don't appear to at all afraid of the soldiers or even hostile. The soldiers don't help put out the fires but they don't get in the way either.
I am not particularly impressed with the level of training of that bunch, since it shows them bunched up on that one trail and nobody seems interested in watching for movement around them and during that one scene while they are digging and cleaning their M-16s, you would think that they were on a stateside training exercise instead of Vietnam. They don't seem to be thinking about the possibility of mortar fire, judging by the shallowness of those holes and their indifference to cover.
The things you learned very quickly over there was to pay close attention to where you stepped and to the edges of the treelines where the enemy was almost certainly watching and waiting.