>THE COLLAPSE OF THE ARMED FORCES
>
>By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr.
>North American Newspaper Alliance
>Armed Forces Journal, 7 June, 1971
>
>THE MORALE, DISCIPLINE and battleworthiness of the U.S. Armed Forces
>are, with a few salient exceptions, lower and worse than at anytime
>in this century and possibly in the history of the United States.
>
>By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam
>is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding
>or having _refused_ combat, murdering their officers and non
>commissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near
>mutinous...
Thank god Bob Bartley assumed the helm at the WSJ editpage soon after this was written. For, as the WSJ obit pointed out, to Bob, the confusion of the 1970s was worse than 9/11!
Doug