The Spartans Of Indochina

The Spartans of IndochinaA curious demonstration took place one day in August 1969 at an American base camp near Saigon. A skinny, shockheaded North Vietnamese stripped to his undershorts, dropped to the ground and, quick and grace ful as a snake, crawled 25 yards to the camp's outer defensive perimeter. There were two rolls of concertina barbed wire--each about two and a half feet in diameter--laid side by side on the red earth and a third roll on top, forming a rough triangle. They were braced...