Conflicted: A History Podcast

The Good Guys: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam

Jun 13, 2020

02:14:12

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The American Military's 'Free Fire Zones'

02:34

The U.S. Army's Search and Destroy Strategy in Vietnam

02:35

The American Empire and the French in Southeast Asia

02:32

Introduction

3min

Ridenhauer and Butch Grover

3min

Ridenhauer and Butch Reidenhauer - A Memoir

2min

I Couldn't Live With Myself if I Did

3min

The Meli Massacre Was Not a One Off Event

3min

Viit Nam - The Battle for the Soul of the American Military

3min

The Mongol War Machine

3min

The Vienam Dynasty

2min

The French Empire Was Not in via to Learn the Language

3min

10.

Ho Che Men - A History of the Viet Nam War

3min

11.

Viet Nam - A Triumph, an Amazing Day

2min

12.

World War Two and the Soviet Union

3min

13.

The American Empire and the French in Southeast Asia

3min

14.

American History Is a Straight Line

4min

15.

The US Army Could Never Invade North Vietnam Directly

2min

16.

The U.S. Army's Search and Destroy Strategy in Vietnam

3min

17.

The Enemy Wasn't There

3min

18.

The Battle of the Booby Trap

2min

19.

The M 16 Was a Piece of Shit

2min

20.

The Beauty of War, by Tim O'Brien

4min

21.

The Human Brain Isn't Fully Developed Until You're 25

2min

22.

The Average Age of American Soldiers in Viit Nam

2min

23.

The Secret of the Blockade

3min

24.

The Power of Quantitative Analysis

3min

25.

How to Find the Enemy

3min

26.

Vihi Kong - The v C Hope We Will Do

2min

27.

The American Military's 'Free Fire Zones'

3min

28.

The M GR R

3min

29.

How to Inject People Like That Into a War

2min

30.

Viet Nam - The Biggest Damned Mess

3min

31.

The Good Samaritan, a Private Named Sven Ericson

2min

32.

Taking a Girl With You on Patrol

2min

33.

Ericson's Story of the Punishment

2min

34.

I Can't Understand You, I Can Only Explain Why They Did It

2min

35.

Ericson and the War on Drugs

3min

36.

The Meli Massacre

2min

37.

Calley, the Most Pid Second Lieutenant on the Face of the Earth

5min

38.

The Choppers of a Chopper

3min

39.

The Gi Is Yell, Dung Li

3min

40.

The Meli Massacre

5min

41.

The Vietnam War - The Last Name

4min

42.

The Meli Massacre

4min

43.

Hugh Thompson Junior and the Meli Massacre

6min

44.

The Vianom War

4min

The 1968 My Lai Massacre shocked Americans, but the true nature of the Vietnam War went far beyond anything the public could’ve imagined. This is the story of the war within the War, between the soldiers who brutalized Vietnamese civilians, and the unsung men who tried to stop them.

SOURCES:

Jones, Howard. My Lai. 2015.

Hastings, Sir Max. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy (1945-1975). 2018.

Hersh, Seymour M. Cover-Up. 1972.

Charles Rivers Editors. The My Lai Massacre. 2015.

Fitzgerald, Frances. Fire In The Lake. 1972.

O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. 1990.

Turse, Nick. Kill Anything That Moves. 2013.

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