Max Hastings Reporting From Vietnam
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2018
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Ahead of the release of his new book, VIETNAM, Max Hastings introduces some clips of his reporting from the war.
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Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh’s warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed 2 million people.
Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners’ victory in privation and oppression. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, Huey pilots from Arkansas.
No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings’ readers know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle with so many lessons for the 21st century about the misuse of military might to confront intractable political and cultural challenges. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record.
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Read more: www.maxhastings.com
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To all the soldiers, correspondents, & people who tried to make a difference in Vietnam, ..Thank you very much for your service.
InstaBlaster.
hear hear
Amen. Thank you for your service and welcome home. You are all heroes in my book.
@@sartainja they lost
We had Max Hastings with us, 45 Commando Royal Marines as we yomped across the Falklands 40 years ago. Being a Marine, 1st class, I only saw him, but the NCOs told me he was a decent man.
did you win the war? the us cant win anything
@@juanshaftpatel7488 they could if the politicians would let them.
@@darrengilbert7438 youare slaves to your maters, the politicains.. youre basically black
You have the balls to report from an active combat zone then I'm not one to nit pick on your voice. Very well done. Excellent questions with great responses. Cheers
Max Hastings book about Vietnam is superb. Well worth a read.
Avro Manhattans book is much better.
@@edcarson3113 Did you read Hastings book though?
I'm looking forward to reading it.
Out of all the wars in the past I find the Vietnam war the most unusual.🇺🇸 My 2 cousins served in nam and they both made it back home alive and in one piece thank God.
I was lucky also. Oorah to.them..
@@jimmykey5921 Thank You for serving❗🇺🇸
@@miguelsalami Thank you sir.It was an honour..
It’s obvious why these men respected their CO, very good documentary
A good officer, hope he made it home.
He worked his way up through the ranks; he earned it the hard way.
I thank God for men like Lt. Burrelson.
One of the best vietnam war videos i ever saw..its just like your there in the bush with that patrol..
Thanks for posting this. As a child of the 70s I can remember watching these dispatches on the news. A great insight into the war.
Yea, i remember seeing children on fire in news briefs during cartoons as a child.
Very inspiring actually. Scarred me as a child for life. Nothing like watching our capatalizt system at work in full swing.
Beware the military for profit industry.
Here we go again. Poooof. Bye bye.
Max Hastings is the finest war historian I've ever read.
I agree, his WW-II books are masterfully researched and impossible to put down.
He does seem like a stopped clock though....sometime between june 44 and may 45..!
I highly highly recommend atastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
Max Hastings performed a wonderful task... documenting chaos that we may be informed.
I was in and out of LZ West a few times in 68.My Aero Scout unit flew recon missions for the 11th,196th,and198th Inf operations in the Chu Lai AO.One of our scout LOACH pilots,Hugh Thompson was on such mission when he observed Calley's company firing on women and children,landed his ship and informed Lt Calley that he would fire on them if he continued the shootings.Many of these areas were designated free fire zones by Command and that is where the confusion starts.This is an excellent record of how most of the search and destroy mission strategy was on a daily basis.After My Lai was revealed,
rules of engagement were stiffened and most units were reluctant to fire unless fired upon first,as some in the film eluded to.I believe this was the same area,only 2yrs later.This account is the real deal and a rarity,thanks for this record.
you is from u.s?
Just finishing up the book, it's defo has the comprehensive coverage of the entire SEA conflict front to back..
essential reading for anybody who ever had an interest in "vietnam"
my dad was a Marine Lt. Colonel and died in 1979. he had some of those silk maps. Did you see Lt. Borrelson hold one? My dad said it was so the VC didnt hear you folding up paper. He said the sound carried over the terrain there. You could hear everything. even the VC blowing their whistles. LOL
Excellent report, the combination of words and images. It gives you an excellent point of view from the US soldier's perspective.
I grew up was raised by men who fought in Vietnam. the movies and so much of the politics do not reflect how they felt. my uncle did four tours volunteered . my dad did two tours. his brother didn't make it through his first tour as he was wounded. none of them have the attitude as betrayed by movies and by so much of the historical politics. they did what they had to do and they don't regret it. none of them have flashbacks. none of them hate the military none of them hate their country. my uncle on my mom's side who did four tours he regrets that he couldn't help the Vietnamese mountain people more he has pictures of him with the kids. the mountain yard says he was special forces. he knew why he was fighting and he knows what happened to them when we betrayed them and left and it wasn't pretty that's his only regret that he couldn't help them more 😁🇺🇲
Your family is a exeption
@@daniellap.stewart6839 I don't think so. During the war, it was normal for people to support the nation and the war effort. It was only after the war, or during the latter part that the people of America started to turn against it.
Some people who don't remember or were not around like to say that the news reporters were totally neutral about the war, but they were a large part of why the American people turned against it.
You sir have a voice like liquid honey. I just love the little bit of the accent and I actually came within a few days of actually meeting you in person in Vietnam. I was a radio operator there and that was a voice link between some of those outlying basis and headquarters.
Love these clips
This is so good. Monotonous days but always on edge cause you never knew what was right around the corner. God bless these guys.
Good documentary!
Max's film gives a real taste of the end of days feeling that those soldiers had. A war that was futile coming to an end.
And that made it even more important not to be killed or wounded before the end of tour.
God we cannot complain
Bad
This is real
SHIT
I am always sad and sorry to see so many young life lost for no reason others than to serve the ego of a few politician. Sad
a waste
The longer the Vietnam war lasted, the longer the mustaches and hair got.
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@@Ronnie-Jones Shut it, prick.
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staches were the thing back then... medic in Nam 1972
Which gave birth to the combat beards today lol
The soliders just look exhausted. The terrain looks very tough too.
I am a little over half-way through this book and can definitely highly recommend it. Great read!
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The absolute best book I've ever read on Vietnam was Max Hastings' 'Vietnam.'
I see you don't read much.
The first broadcast looks/sounds like that Monty Python sketch of “The World’s Deadliest Joke.”
Levity needed. This is brutal. Thanks for your posting these. ✌️
Why is he apologizing for his broadcasting voice, I thought it sounded clear and professional - he did a fantastic job reporting
Great new footage I've never seen. The Lt. knows his shit 👍. Good job Max !
Interesting that the guys made kind of improvised chest rigs with the ammo bandoliers.
That is literally their purpose.
This is why you don't use the draft unless it's a war at home.
.kd .
There should be no wars but for defense of home. Period. Anything else is immoral aggression.
If there is a war at home (revolution ) they won't have to draft patriots. We are all ready and always ready !
Without the draft we never would have won world war 2 and you wouldn't have a home to speak of
@@DRC-of2ci WW2 was total war and the US was attacked. Vietnam was US colonialism and the public did not support it.
Excellent reporting and the piece shows so well the absurdity of the final years of the Vietnam war and the disillusion of the mostly conscript troops, in an unwinnable war. No wonder there was so much PTSD in the aftermath.
Superb reporting that told the truth about the situation. The U.K. had better be thankful that it did not get involved in the quagmire of Vietnam.
Max's magnum opus "Vietnam" is a definate work
Very interesting..I'm going to vietnam in March and will visit some of these sites..any vets here served around Hue?
Dont step a mine or something else EXPLOSIVE!!.. where is stamp "made in usa"
@@peuramauriainen604 Or China and Russia?
We were all young, many years ago...
LT is a bad ass with discipline.....
Wow are those sounds real actual sounds in the scenes?
They are real!
Max.. It's as though you thought you were invincible!
Would like to know what year this piece was filmed. I was with alpha company 68 to 69 and remember HeipDuc being very active with many fire fights with NVA troops.
70 -71 from what I understand.
So the narrator says My Lai happened 3 years ago. That would date this video around March of 71
Pittsburgh Steeler Rocky Bleier was a 196th LIB grunt and was wounded around Hiep Duc I think in 1969. Things were definitely more intense at that time than they were at the time this was filmed a few years later.
@@wes11bravo what company were you with ? Like I posted I was with Alpha Co, 4/31st, 196 th, Sargent Wilder was my platoon Sargent, he was killed in action in July 1969. I left the field on November 10th 1969 to go back to the world.
He wrote one of the best books about the Vietnam War.
Iv listened to his books/audio books on audible , his cold war ones amazing
I wonder what year this fim was made
Around my time but different regiment & brigade, same I Corps AO and Americal Division. Bobby traps & friendly fire were the biggest casualty causes. .
What year was this?
That was a nice lift off @ 3:14
1st LT Borisman seems like a tough dude. I have never seen a 1st LT lead a company, but I was an officer in a different time.
He was a Non-Com who got promoted. This was the end of the tour for him and I believe they promoted him to Captain just before he left the Company. I was there.
It is like a long-range reconnaissance agent.The reconnaissance configuration was full of lax.I never went to battle, but I studied military basics.This is laxity that I have never seen before.Performing daily missions such as bathing in battlefields requires surveillance.
1:07 obviously the sound track to some old war movie.
I recall walking through the mall in Columbus, GA years ago with an associate and he happened to glance over at a jewelry store at a short and rotund man and he asked me "do you know who that is?"' and I said no. He said that is William "Bill" Calley. I immediately recalled the incident. As Lt. Burrelson said "he was a weak officer."
Lt Coward retreated back to the Peachtree mall, eh? Guess he stayed in the area after he was on “house arrest” on main post at Benning.
All war is an epic tragedy
I read his book on Vietnam, Hastings is amazing.
A Noble Cause......Draft Number 71.....
Draft number 261 after I was in for three months.
I am glad you lived.
Max Hastings I believe was the first person into Port Stanley during the Falklands Campaign...the Paras were not happy...and let him now.
All of that report ,what year is this report?
Good question, I was wondering the same. From how he talks about the war being over, the attire and grooming standard of the men, and the quality of the video, I would say it's somewhere between 1970-1972.
1970 and 1971
Did he say ”recon by fire” ? Is that a standard option?!
Yeah , they did it all the time to spoil ambushes , hit assembly areas or any place they could be hiding .
Soldiers who just want to go home. You can not win the war this way.
In 1968 President Johnson had negotiated a peace deal and was working out some of the details.Nixon heard about it and sent his people to the South Vietnamese asking them to wait and he would get them a better deal.Our killed in action doubled,POW were held an additional 5 years.The wounded tripled.Google “The Chennault affair.”.🤬
Dan Carlin’a interview w him on Hardcore History brought me here. This guy is a legend.
Inspired me to serve also. But at the same time, all those years over in the Middle East, I feel we accomplished the exact same thing as the Vietnam veterans probably felt.. nothing
"THEY take one of OUR grenades..."
He literally said:
"How much damage?"
"Yes."
I'm reading the book at the moment but not far in enough to comment . I hope it's up there with 'A Bright Shining Lie' and 'Dispatches' , a book I've reread several times . Side note : To borrow from a certain film - charging Calley with murder is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500 . This being a very damning indictment of US policy rather than extenuation for Medina & Calley et al.
Dispatches is a classic literary masterpiece.
LordAxe ‘
It’s the politician’s Fault for forcing men in these deadly situations, any blame or punishment falls on the politicians not on the soldiers for war crimes. If you don’t like it don’t send them !
@@lance8080 Yes indeed . War - and I mean - what war means to a soldier on the line with one foot in his grave , as non-combatants , we will never know . I think that's why many do not speak of their experience - it's ineffable . It's a big subject really . Think about how many civilians were killed because of 'Westy' & his body count/tipping point , not to mention McNamara & his ridiculous faith in his data/stats (and his particularly egregious use of men with learning difficulties ).
@@lance8080 i.e. kill only when told and apologize afterwards or it's to the brig!
Hard to see but real
Wow thanks Max, I have read a number of your books and I never knew you were "So close to the real Action!", so to speak! Thanks. In hindsight we (The West) should have backed Ho Chi Ming; it was just because we didn't like the Commies and by all accounts he was a not so bad Commie! Silly really!-----Thanks once again Max, I have enjoyed reading your books! Wow!
This is such good journalism.
Bs , this journalist sounds like a anti war activist .
Excellent example of anti - American , left wing journalism .
I don't know if it was a coincidence, but I noticed the blacks and whites were separate.
A late war situation . The media helped push unrest at home , and it made it's way into the Army .
The reporter looked and sounded like a Monty Python character
I was thinking the same !
LOL YOU were not joking about your Early voice Max :D
The artillery scared my cat :(
You never send a man where a bullet will go.
Hastings' book details every mistake made in the American War and consequentially makes for a fantastic monitor stand
you would not believe how different this video hits when youre high
5:10 - How many were cringeing as he started to unscrew that booby trap?!!
Me, definitely! And I noticed the guy behind him suddenly decided to check out the view about 30 yards away.
It was a smoke grenade.
Top Nutt; “Shit ALWAYS flows downhill, Sargent...”
Me; “Request permission to change boots and grab a poncho, Top!”
(1). The higher highers did not have a Plan because there wasn't one that would work. (2). there was no such thing as a restricted fire zone. We shot at everything. A Colonel ask me if I knew where my free fire zones were and I pointed at the barbed wire and told him everything on the other side. I meant it. (3). the idea of calling in enemy dead when you found no one was done frequently. If you waited for permission to fire, you were already dead. Fire by recon just meant that you were firing without the vaguest idea of what or who was there. And, as one of my sgts. said to me, "does it matter?" (4). In conclusion, No you do not go home and live the rest of your life as before, you are never the same. Pretty picture of LZ West, but it looks a lot like LZ Center, where I was. We had 3 LZ's but they overran East before I got there and never rebuilt it. I bet that wasn't in the US papers. As always the honor goes to those who did not come back.
“Where each man”@14.16...I see two boys.
18 year old men , my dear .
USMC - 1969 to 1973; Viet Nam - '71 to '72. Ooooh Rahhhh, Semper Fi to all Jarheads. The Americal Division (23rd) was formed overseas in New Caledonia, and the name was taken from the American and Caledonia, thus the Americal Division. It was the only US Army division to have ever been formed overseas (during WWII). Their patch is the constellation, the Southern Cross. Just saying...
War movies should be just 100% True Documentaries instead of fantasy. So that people understand what war is really like. This was a very well done documentary.
No
They are not taking a swim, they are bathing
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I'm very sure that the LATE GREAT John PILGER was there in Vietnam ar that Exact year..😑😑😒🙏🙏💜💜💜💜
지금은 일어나려고 무진 애를 써요. 잘 다루면 같이하게 좋아요. 근성이 있어요. 하하. 그러나
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That toupee man!
I was waiting for Monty Python to pop out
You kinda sound like Russ Kemp
All you combat vets are the real STAR'S and should be treated the way NFL and those Hollywood SCUM bags take for granted??? ( HERO'S!! ) WELCOME HOME!! These ved's were presented well ??
Why? Because they risked their lives in a fight they lost over a cause that was never just to begin with? A pizza guy in the inner city risks his life too. No weapons, bad area, everyone knows you’re carrying at least 20 bucks, probably more. But we don’t spend all our time kissing their asses now do we?
... 5:55 POOR FOOLS, THEY HAVE NO IDEA OF WHY? THEY ARE KILLING PEOPLE.
The whole absurdity and wastefulness of the Vietnam War condensed in 20 minutes.
The Lt just called an White Phosphorus artillery strike on a civilian village because he saw movement and he casually proceed to say he’s a better officer than Cawley!
조금 까부는데 그거야 다루기 나름이지요.
they should have either never went or just nuked them..
보는 눈에 따라 베트남 전은 다르지요. 나는 갈등에서 시작하지만. 모두 동생같이. 아주 잘해요. 베트남은 시작부터 동생으로 두었는데 일본과 배신하고 시진핑에게. 해봤다. 결국 형에게 돌아오지 어데가. 허는 변한 적도 없는데. 그냥 배신. 참 한심하다. 기래도. 동생. 필리핀 깡패대장. 거기도 배신하지 말고 잘해요. 하하.
@11:36 listening to them talk about not being able to fire on the enemy and the ridiculousness of the ROE's reminds me of my time in Iraq. Politicians try to fight a war being politically correct and this gets more troops and civilians killed than by just letting troops do what they are trained to do. It pissed me off when I was in Country and I'm getting pissed again just listening to these guys.
Max Hitler Hastings,,,,did a very interesting documentary analysis on the civilian evacuation / fleeing from Prussia during Ww2 as the Russians arrived wrecking havoc....a good historian ..👌🏻
What are you talking about
Another case of media shaping the public view. If public opinion had be great and supportive, there would have been a different out come.
Well looks like you haven´t heard a lot of Vietnam veterans talk about it. The US had no business in Vietnam and the youth paid dearly for it. And those words came from soldiers, not reporters.
@@hectorjcm800 Do you say that to all veterans that served in Nam?
@@hectorjcm800 Not all of us were draftees. Those of us that had careers in the military were doing what we joined to do. The war was unpopular because of draftees that would rather smoke dope than fight against communism, and liberal media types that would rather smoke dope than actually support something that the govt believed was the right thing to do. Not everybody was a dove dude.
OK I'll assume you're saying the truth and you served your country and you did your job. I got nothing against that. Anyways, 50 years afterwards the global effects of the US foreign policy are pretty clear much beyond any media bias. Maybe you chose to view it just from a single perspective and think of certain people as lesser soldiers than you were. I was not there and I give you that, but I don't necessarily think that only draftees and dope smokers saw the conflict with a critical view. And even if they were, I don't think that their view is less valid than yours, one thing is for sure: war is hell and one doesn't need to be there to know the fact.
@@hectorjcm800 Have you ever seen the movie back to school, with rodney dangerfield? The college professor pretty much sums it up when he talked about the war in Vietnam. While that was a comedy sketch, there also happens to be a very real thread of truth in what Sam Kinnisons character says. You should watch it. If i knew how to put a link up for you to see it, i would.
Terrible syrup but otherwise quite good.
this is depressing me and making me sad
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No wonder they lost
By this time in the war , the main part of the fighting was being turned over to the South Vietnamese . We were gone by 1973 and the South lost the war in April 1975 .
@@gordonlandreth9550 Um.. they were gone by 1973 as they had lost. They bugged out as they couldn't win the war so left the South Vietnamese to their own devices. I mean you can argue against facts if you want but there's a label for people like that.
@@gaudd Hey if you like those ' facts ' that is fine . You can say that the U S lost the war , but those decisions to leave were done in Washington , with the hope that the South could hold . The US Army left South Vietnam with honor , they were not driven off the battlefield . Those are facts .
Americal division