[phobosdeimos]

The US military studied Vietnam a lot:

No more draft, career soldiers only Control the media One year tour of duty (they broke this one in Iraq because they were running low)

[toomanybeersies]

> Control the media

This is a big one I think. From what I've read, in Vietnam, you just needed to get letter from your local newspaper accrediting you as a journalist, and you basically got a free ticket anywhere in Vietnam with the US military.

Now it's a lot harder to get embedded as a journalist with military units.

[platz]

+ use mercenaries

[jacobush]

"Oops, who could have imagined they'd be a little liberal with the bullets. Oh well."