| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War. By William Thomas Allison. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xviii, 230 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1460-8.)

The Vietnam War is seared into the American memory as a catastrophe of U.S. military and foreign policy. Among the most painful impressions of America's Vietnam experience are images of U.S. soldiers who had seemingly thrown off the restraints of law and discipline, using drugs, "fragging" superiors, and murdering large numbers of Vietnamese civilians. The purpose of this compact monograph is to describe and evaluate the responses of the U.S. military justice system to the daunting challenges posed by the Vietnam War, the objectives of which were not only achieving victory over what was in part a domestic insurgency but also creating in South Vietnam a democratic and capitalist society as a bulwark against the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. The parallels with the current U.S. imbroglio in Iraq give this book an obvious contemporary relevance.

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