Revisionist history of the Vietnam War.

In writing my memoir, I began to research the history of the Vietnam War. I remembered the low state of morale in the unit I was assigned to because I had transferred from a unit of extremely high morale in Germany and at the time I didn't understand how two units in the same army could be so different. I was most interested in a battle that took place just before I arrived in country, the battle of August 25th at Bong Trang. The company commander of my new unit had been KIA in that battle along with four other men and about half the company had been wounded. The battle involved four of the nine infantry battalions of the 1st Infantry Division in an ill-conceived maneuver orchestrated by MG William DePuy that resulted in disaster. DePuy had a high reputation and was known in the post-war army of the 1980's as the man who rebuilt the army after Vietnam. When I read the official history of the battle in the U.S. Army publication, "Stemming the Tide," by John Cartland I began using Google to search for various documents cited in the footnotes. I followed the trail of footnotes into the cyber jungle and found a very different story. That story I have detailed in Chapter's three and four of my book. The results of my research led me to a much deeper understanding of S.L.A. Marshall's proclamation: "The Study of War is the Study of Human Nature."