Juris jurjevics biography of mahatma
Washington Independent ....
An Interview with Juris Jurjevics
What prompted you to write Red Flagsnow, more than 40 years after your deployment to Vietnam?
No one had yet written about our running battle with the South Vietnamese, our hosts at the war we were paying to attend.
Juris jurjevics biography of mahatma
I wanted to get into their elaborate, even treasonous corruption and our complicity in it. The Vietnamese were diverting our supplies — medicines, gasoline, ammunition, weapons, rations — to the black market and on to the enemy, and we looked away.
They also avoided engaging the North Vietnamese invading their territory, and left it to their civilian village militias and our forces to bear the brunt of stopping them. Finally, I felt I owed it to the Montagnard tribes people to describe their mistreatment at the hands of the Vietnamese, persecution that got so bad it led to violent mutinies, which in turn caused terrible conflicts for their American advisers who actually felt a greater loyalty to the aboriginal tribes t