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batants.) There's the usual collection of types — the wide-eyed rookie, the battlesoftened veteran, the half-baked patriot, and so on. The major is ordered to send a detachment of advisors, accompanied by Vietnamese mercenaries and regular soldiers, to Muc Wa, an outpost in the countryside. The major argues that the arrival of Americans in a previously peaceful area will invite the attention of the Vietcong, while his superiors argue that the area has strategic potential; either way, the VC promptly put in an appearance.

This raises the problem that plagued the Americans then and throughout the war: what was the 'appearance' of the VC? Faced by a typical peasant family of about fourteen people, ranging from whiskered grand-dad to tiny tot, one soldier says: 'They don't look like Communists to me.' It's only when, after a battle, the recruits examine the bodies of some children and find them wearing cartridge belts that they begin to see what they are up against. The peasants don't know what the Americans are doing in Vietnam; and neither, unfortunately, do the Americans.

After several bloody skirmishes, the news that VC battalions are marching on the area compels the Americans to pull out; the major packs his advisors off in a helicopter, but sacrifices his own life by electing to stay behind to help the Vietnamese loyalists. The last we see of Lancaster, he is lying naked and dead on a battle ground, stripped of clothing by the VC and of dignity by a bulging belly. Quite a brave performance. The major at least has been faithful to the, Herodotian epitaph left at Muc Wa by earlier French casualties, and roughly translated as: 'Stranger, when you find us lying here, go tell the Spartans that we obeyed their orders.'