here and at home, where I read your reading assignment.

Your dynamic ball and stick molecular model (forget which .ppt) of how insurgency and counter-insurgency worked fascinated me. Probably because I slogged through an engineering school as a Chem major.

So, what did happen on Market Street with its home-grown Stan the C-4 Man ?

Also kept getting a trailer for John Milius' Red Dawn - NRA infiltration ?

I should mention I probably used the wrong word ("competence") about ARVN, which you logically enough translated to "capable". I should have used "disinclined" (or some such), because of many political, economic, family and personal factors. Besides knowing the language and culture, some of their officers (usually long-serving & down the totem pole) were former VM in the very early days.