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Report of the Department S9. of the Army Review of the Preliminaey
Investigations into the My Lai Inzident, I. The I eport of the
Investigation ("The Peers Report") (Washingtooi, D.C.: U.S. Government
Printing Offir.3, 1970); see also Edward Mc. Colbach and Matti;w D.
Parrish, "Army Mental Health Activities in Vietnam 1965-1970," ir
Veteran's Administration, Department of Medicine and Surgery, The
Vietnam Veteran in Contemporary Society (Washington, D.C.: US
Government Printing Office, May 1970), p. 38.
10. W. Hayes Parks, "Crimes in Hostilities," .:arine Corps Gazette,
September 1976, p. 36.
11. Eugene Linden, "Fragging and Other Withdrawal Symptoms," Saturday
Review, January 8, 1972, p. 12. This is not to imp;y that all
officers were intimidated or in some way "ran scared," but there can
be no question that it did affect the overall command environment.
12. Samuel H. Hays, "The Growing Leadership Crisis," Army, February 1970,
p. 39.
13. AWC study, supra note 2, p. 28. Among other sources arguing that
societal ci&anges were of leis-than-primary importance to military
problems is Gabriel and Savage, supra note 3, which gives this
question considerable attention in Ct.apter III, "The Officer Corps."
14. Hays, 5upra note 12, p. 43.
15. Ibid. p. 40.
16. AWC study, supra note 2. p. 55. As Gabriel and Savage noted (Gabriel
and Savage, supra note 3, p. 58), the very fact that the Army went to
the trouble of composing "An Officer's Code," after getting along
without it for nearly 200 years, indicates its own recognition that a
problem exists. In particular, the drafting of "An Officer's Code"
can be seen as a spin-off of the AWC study.
17. A copy af General Westmoreland's letter to the Commandant of the US
Army War College requesting this study is included as "Enclosure I" in
the AWC study, supra note 2, pp. 53-54.
18. AWC study, supra note 2, p. i.
19. Department of the Army, Office of the Secretary of the A, 1,y, Memorarndum.
for the Record dated 27 April 1971. This memorandum summarized hearings,
chaired by Ccngressman Dellums, about atrocities in Vietnam.
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