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...TIME'S Pentagon man since 1963, Mulliken has made the military and the military mind his specialty. As an Army officer during World War II, he witnessed the behavior of soldiers under pressure. A 22-year-old platoon commander during the Battle of the Bulge, Mulliken stopped a sergeant from shooting German prisoners held in a farmhouse, though "no one would have been able to distinguish the bodies of those Germans from the ones already lying on the cold December ground outside." Mulliken, like most combat veterans, can understand how bystanders often become casualties during fierce fighting. This fact...
...many of the 22,000 troops were employed in occupying static positions and counting enemy bodies after U.S. air strikes. But in general, discipline was high, and there was reason to believe that the South Vietnamese were at last beginning to solve their chronic leadership problems on the squad, platoon and company level. "They had to have damn good small-unit leadership," an Army general argues, "or they wouldn't have got out of there...
Bailey said that it was unclear whether the government would charge in its case that Medina had actually ordered the killings at My Lai, or merely that, as a commander, Medina had responsibility for the actions of Calley and his platoon...
...infantry assault against My Lai was spearheaded by Calley's 1st Platoon, a unit of Charlie company within the America Division. The assault failed to find any Viet Cong soldiers, and the operation disintegrated into an execution of civilian villagers...
...only for profit. What emerged unscathed from Jones' commercialization were his least savory qualities. It soon became apparent that Jones had written Warden into From Here to Eternity not so much as an indication that even a tough Top Sergeant could get screwed if he attempted to run his platoon humanely, but rather as a corrective to the weaknesses of noble, yet love-lorn and defeated, Prewitt, Realist Warden was always in a commanding position; idealist Prewitt never had that chance. Whatever influences ran through Jones' mind, the hard-driving male delighting in war and sport became more obviously...