Kill anything that moves
by Nick Turse · first published 2013
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Documents the widespread civilian harm and atrocities of the Vietnam War using primary sources. It offers a well-researched corrective to official narratives and gives ground-level history.
Summarised by Claude from recommending comments
Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
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…leveled in indiscriminate, massive bombing campaigns that exceeded twice the ordinance dropped in WWII. Millions were killed. If you really want to research what happened in Vietnam start with Nick Turse's Kill Anything That Moves.[1] It's a polemical title but it's based on a ton of primary research, e.g. the Pentagon's War Crimes Working Group and the National Archives and interviews with over a hundred veterans. And that stuff…
on “A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago” ↗…United States The Fog of War (documentary) Hearts and Minds (documentary) Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram Gary R. Hess, Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War. Nick Turse. Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. I know some of my friends took courses where the Vietnam War was referred to pejoratively as the American War. We learned about My Lai in high school even. Where did…
on “At My Lai: The Photographer Who Captured the Massacre” ↗…if they got convicted at all. One jury had convicted a service-member of premeditated murder but they withdrew the verdict after finding out there was a mandatory life sentence. http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American/dp/0...
on “Doctors participated in torture of suspects after 9/11, taskforce finds” ↗One of the best books to read to get a feel for how America commits its war crimes is Kill Anything that Moves about the Vietnam war. http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American-eboo...
on “I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on” ↗Although I despise Kissinger, I'm not sure it's fair to put it all responsibility on him. There is more blame to go around. Author is Nick Turse. I can recommend his 'Kill Anything That Moves' as a good book on the Vietnam War.
on “Kissinger's killing fields” ↗And I would recommend Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12292260-kill-anything-t...
on “Hanoi's humble beer glass and the memory of a nation” ↗…media: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-the-growing-pu... btw this has been going on for a while. I recently finished an excellent compilation of Vietnam war realities & lies in a book called 'kill anything that moves' & its basically the same propaganda machine reshaping public perception for its benefits.
on “Pentagon and CIA Shaped 1000s of Hollywood Films into Super Effective Propaganda” ↗I recently read "Kill everything that moves" which is about Vietnam (http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American/dp/0... ). Apparently in Vietnam there was contempt for local life, massacres like My Lan were almost policy, fueled by the need to present bodycounts. But policy and incentives alone wasn't…
Yes civilians do die in wars but the conduct of the US forces in South east Asia was pretty reprehensible by any measure. Particularly if you’ve read “Kill anything that moves” by Nick Turse
on “A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago” ↗While My Lai was horrible, evidence collected since then such as in Nick Turse's book "Kill Anything That Moves" [1] and at the Winter Soldier hearings [2] show that Mai Lai was hardly an aberration. Horrible atrocities committed by US soldiers were widespread in Vietnam, much more so than most people digesting…
on “At My Lai: The Photographer Who Captured the Massacre” ↗