When it was still an indepedent newspaper, the Stars and Stripes reported extensively in 1969 on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam with follow-up articles on the court martials of its perpetrators.
When I was young, in junior high history class, I can remember being told that one of the main reasons Nazi Germany lost the war was because all of the soldiers thought alike; they were trained to assume ‘the’ Nazi soldier’s way of thinking and to fight in one way, while the American soldiers thought independently; they were trained to fight in the best way a situation called for. Accepting there is some truth to that, I think the new exclusive ‘warrior’ culture being permeated through the Dept of ‘War’ can be said to be repeating the Nazi Germany mistake.
When it was still an indepedent newspaper, the Stars and Stripes reported extensively in 1969 on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam with follow-up articles on the court martials of its perpetrators.
When I was young, in junior high history class, I can remember being told that one of the main reasons Nazi Germany lost the war was because all of the soldiers thought alike; they were trained to assume ‘the’ Nazi soldier’s way of thinking and to fight in one way, while the American soldiers thought independently; they were trained to fight in the best way a situation called for. Accepting there is some truth to that, I think the new exclusive ‘warrior’ culture being permeated through the Dept of ‘War’ can be said to be repeating the Nazi Germany mistake.