Thread drift alert!! Books on Vietnam?!
Those who don't learn form history are doomed to repeat it. Read the book mentioned and you'll think you're reading about Iraq with a thick coating of leaves added. In Iraq, the American leadership have made virtually every mistake they made in Vietnam, as if it never happened. I can only imagine how incredibly frustrating it must be for the people in theatre with dust on their boots who have studied the mistakes that were made back then, to see them being repeated all over again by leaders who obviously haven't.
Movie suggestion: 'Lions for Lambs'. Bombed in the box office in the US for obvious reasons - the American public didn't want to believe what was being oh so clearly and uncomfortably spelled out in the movie. I am NOT a Tom Cruise fan, but the part he plays in that movie is chillingly accurate and all too familiar.