How Hard It Was to Hit a Bridge With a Bomb

Hackworth: ISIS were easier targets because they had better weaponry. He was in the ninth division and our commander was General Julian Ewell, who was called the butcher of the Delta. Theoretically, civilians were supposed to be away from the battle area. They would go back to where their ancestors were and then they were considered Viet Cong and fair game. Most of the people in the rural areas of Vietnam were sympathetic to the Viet Cong cause. Hackworth says 60% of all U.S. casualties during that war were from booby-trapped minefields.