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Jonathan Schell is a Fellow at The Nation Institute, and the peace and disarmament correspondent for the Nation magazine. Among many other works, he is the author of "The Real War," a collection of his New Yorker reportage on the Vietnam War.

[Under review in this essay: Nick Turse, "Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam" (Metropolitan Books, 2013). Jonathan Schell’s classic Vietnam books, "The Village of Ben Suc" and "The Military Half," are now collected in "The Real War" (Da Capo Press).] 

This is a joint TomDispatch/Nation article, originally appearing at TomDispatch, and appears in print in the Nation magazine.