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The different known reasons for participating in the Vietnam Conflict between four major communities - the American army, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), and the Viet Cong (VC) - cannot become more stark. The maximum amount of as one approaches it as a warfare like any other, its reflection opposite sees it more of what warfare is very about: the have difficulties between life and loss of life with no compromise. There is absolutely no retreat or surrender for those struggling for North Vietnam. You will find no weekend goes by for R&R, no vacations back home after having a year, and no returns to bottom camp for a meal and a shower. There is merely squatting eager in the bush, waiting for the opportunity to eliminate or be killed - and that is it. These dualities supply off the other person in ways far more significant than strategy and practices can provide summation for. They impact real human life at a visceral, horrifying level. And they're the nature of warfare. For Clark Coburn, being a naval official appointed to a military advisor job in Vietnam is his chance to pad his application with the glory and heroism it is currently lacking. There is certainly nothing else in him: no fix, no true idea, no call of a higher power. His determination is powered by personal greed and self-centeredness, for as talented, ambitious, and captivating as he's, he's also equivalent part narcissistic, shallow, and lazy. A scathing indictment of the problem of the real human soul by warfare, Kenneth Levin's bracingly honest and harrowing debut is similar to masterworks like Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of Conflict. A furnished combat veteran whose his own experience in Vietnam are combined with the personal interviews of North Vietnamese veterans, Levin deftly explores the nature of man amidst the chaos and horror of warfare. As illuminating as it is troubling, Crazy Razor shows with stark clarity that the real villain in warfare...is warfare itself.
