Fighting the same war, again and again

In the mid 1960s, I worked for the United States Navy’s Bureau of Ships, managing radar procurement and distribution to vessels operating in Vietnamese waters. Later in the decade I was a research assistant for the Navy Logistics Research Project. I wore a suit to work. I had a salary that my classmates envied. I was, by any conventional measure, on the right side of the desk.I also went to Walter Reed Army Hospital on my own time and interviewed eight wounded veterans at the Army’s principal re...