kontextmaschine:

Now that Ken Burns is bringing into public consciousness Vietnam “fragging” assassination of Army believer officers by disillusioned troops

That’s something about the huffy recurring “well why didn’t they ORDER their men not to rape/pillage/torture the enemy”

There’s a saying the first rule of command is never give an order that won’t be followed and it’s awfully… civillian… to assume that if you made such an order to severely demoralized troops who’d been taking casualties the result would be the order being followed

on that note the real difference between the US Army and the Red Army in occupying Europe is the US troops were rotated out for fresh after every major push and the Red Army had been in the field for years