What is Reddit's opinion of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)?

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Check out the book Kill Anything that Moves. It uses data collected by the US military about atrocities committed in Vietnam, all of which were covered up by the military. This involves individual acts by troops, but also policy by the higher ups. This is what makes people dislike the US military.

I think others have given you some good links to the ways the US destabilizes countries and overthrows legitimate governments.

https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American-ebook/dp/B008FPSTOQ

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

A book that all leftists should read IMO, alongside open veins of Latin America.

https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American-ebook/dp/B008FPSTOQ

kill anything that moves, very eye opening book on the massacres in Vietnam.

The American invasions of Vietnam and Iraq are genocides because of how they specifically conditioned soldiers and de-humanized the populations so that they could more easily be able to murder, rape and mutilate them. There has been significant rhetoric and targeting of Vietnamese and Iraqis, saying that they are subhuman.

>Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians

>Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by "a few bad apples." But as award‑winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of orders to "kill anything that moves."

>Drawing on more than a decade of research in secret Pentagon files and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time how official policies resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded. In shocking detail, he lays out the workings of a military machine that made crimes in almost every major American combat unit all but inevitable. Kill Anything That Moves takes us from archives filled with Washington's long-suppressed war crime investigations to the rural Vietnamese hamlets that bore the brunt of the war; from boot camps where young American soldiers learned to hate all Vietnamese to bloodthirsty campaigns like Operation Speedy Express, in which a general obsessed with body counts led soldiers to commit what one participant called "a My Lai a month."

>Thousands of Vietnam books later, Kill Anything That Moves, devastating and definitive, finally brings us face‑to‑face with the truth of a war that haunts Americans to this day. >http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American-ebook/dp/B008FPSTOQ

You are deluded when you say that drones do not target civilians -- almost all people murdered by American drone terror attacks are civilians and only a handful confirmed "terrorists."

>A new analysis of the data available to the public about drone strikes, conducted by the human-rights group Reprieve, indicates that even when operators target specific individuals – the most focused effort of what Barack Obama calls “targeted killing” – they kill vastly more people than their targets, often needing to strike multiple times. Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November. 41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed: US drone strikes – the facts on the ground

Talking to you is like talking to a North Korean True Believer.

So, first, I'm not American.

Second, the "Was the My Lai massacre one of many?" article is based on Kill Anything that Moves, a book damning US military policy in Vietnam. I'm using the estimates from that book.

Beak it down!

Syria - US, barely involved!

Iraq - That's a big one, addressed above.

Somalia - Minimally involved. Insignificant casualties.

Yemen - Supplied arms to Saudi Arabia. I'm not in favor of that. Still, it's not like B-52s are bombing Yemen.

Pakistan - The US looked the other way on a near-genocide in the 50's. Absolutely shameful. But that's not on US hands. They've barely set foot in Pakistan. There are drones there, and that's an issue.

Afghanistan - Included, obviously.

Panama - A stupid coup. Not many casualties.

Libya - Minimal involvement.

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, Chile, Lebanon, every single country on the Indochinese peninsula, Peru, Dominican republic, Guatemala, Indonesia - Fuck, I've got to go to bed. Yes, the US has fucked up a lot and ought to be reprimanded. So, subtract Vietnam for a start; subtract Cambodia because fuck Nixon, bombing Cambodia was an unforgivable mistake. Outside of that you're looking at tens of thousands of casualties all told.

> all that shit is meaningless because you love your country so much and Stalingrad (a battle completely irrelevant to US armed forces) was BAD.

Again, I'm not American. And yeah, it was absolutely the Soviets under Stalin who won Stalingrad, the US wasn't involved beyond supplies. My point wasn't that the US is awesome, wooo, America #1. My point was that in a world where everyone is intimidated by US strength, you don't get Stalingrads, even on the other side of the world. You don't get World Wars, with the millions upon millions of casualties entailed. Instead, you get "police actions" and a couple thousand casualties. Not ideal, but not exactly Stalingrad.

I have a hard time believing this, and My Lai certainly wasn't an abnormal occurrence. Sections of the country were literally considered free fire zones - artillery and air support were dropped on coordinates (villages quite often), not necessarily ID'd enemy. There was a reason that every village in these zones had bunkers for civilians.

Your clean description may have very well described your unit's actions, but certainly not a description of the war as a whole.

Good read on the subject - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008FPSTOQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1