The bar on business communication is set so low that there are almost no entry-level requirements other than being a living human being
Steele gave the unapologetic impression that he could break you with his bare hands if it weren’t for his strict devotion to Jesus and army discipline.
Regular users know nothing about program languages or varying exchange protocols. They just want the thing to run. So Microsoft invented a way to bundle executable programs and data, the DLL, that all...
Pretty girls were not perceived as a threat in the city. They moved around freely. They could watch the military and police posts, mapping entrances and exits, defenses, and gun positions, and noting...
Never had a general so effectively willed away the facts.
It was the way he lived. He could walk out of that building at a moment’s notice and leave behind no personal trace.
In this peaceful city, during Tet, it was traditional to send cups of paper with lit candles floating down the Huong like flickering blossoms, prayers for health, for success, for the memory of loved...
Somalia) was a watershed, said one State Department official, The idea used to be that terrible countries were terrible because good, decent, innocent people were being oppressed by evil, thuggish lea...
Prepare for a great push to be called Tong-Tan-cong-Noi-day (General Offensive, General Uprising). It would take place during Tet, which in 1968, according to the Chinese calendar, was to be Mau Than,...
While in the United States and Europe revolution was an excuse to sell pop music, stage protests, and hold festivals, it was being played for keeps in Asia. Young people were not just challenging thei...
Westmoreland’s body counts were bogus. He believed them—he was not the first general to welcome statistics he wanted to hear. But, in practice, there was every incentive for field commanders to inflat...
Thomas Paine’s The Crisis—These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country . . .
John Updike once said that he was confused by the very concept of antiwar, which he felt, and I’m paraphrasing him here, was like being anti-food or anti-sex, since war was such an essential element o...
The joke Colombians told was that God had made their land so beautiful, so rich in every natural way, that it was unfair to the rest of the world; He had evened the score by populating it with the mos...
Enemy morale has not been broken—he apparently has adjusted to our stopping his drive for military victory and has adopted a strategy of keeping us busy and waiting us out (a strategy of attriting our...