The Importance of Intelligence in the Vietnam War

Lieutenant Callie noticed the change in the mood of the men. They're starting to apply the blame to these Vietnamese villagers. He could hardly refrain from telling them well I told you so. There is a strange discrepancy between what the army thought it knew about the Viet Cong and what the task force thought it knew. Army intelligence made only tentative claims. Ramsdell and for that matter, Kootak were almost pontifical.