From the introduction: > Our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murd

From the introduction: > Our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near-mutinousŠ[C]onditions [exist] among American forces in Vietnam that have only been exceeded in this century by...the collapse of the Tsarist armies in 1916 and 1917.