Conduct to the Prejudice of Good Order: The Final Years of the Vietnam War

"Conduct to the Prejudice of Good Order" tells the story of low troop moral, high stakes drug deals and the prosecution of ill-fated soldiers caught in the chaos that was Southeast Asia in 1971-72. Through the eyes of Captain Bill Blake of the Judge Advocate General’s Corp. we are taken by surprise as the truth of America’s first television war emerges. What the public saw from the comfort of their living rooms was a cleansed version of how a war is supposed to go: overwhelming success on the battlefields with total victory always in site. What America wasn’t seeing on the evening news amid the enemy body counts was our own high incidence of racism, severe addiction to heroin, and a vendetta-driven form of murder known as ‘fragging’. Through the chaotic tangle of rank and disorder comes the truth about war and those who profess to manage it: war isn’t just Hell, it is also Goodbye.