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Quiz for Document 29–3: Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Which of the following disciplinary problems in the United States armed forces were entirely new in the Vietnam War?

Desertion

Racial conflict

Drug use

Mutiny

2. How did Heinl define “fragging”?

Suicide committed by American troops

Attacks on commanding officers by their own troops

Injuries from explosive booby traps

Soldiers refusing to go into combat

3. How did Heinl relate the state of the American military to domestic conditions in the United States?

He felt disorder within military ranks reflected societal divisions at home.

He thought the imperatives of battle allowed American troops to unite in Vietnam despite tensions at home.

He believed troops felt excluded from the rapid societal changes sweeping the United States.

He argued that the diversity of American troops created tensions far worse than those on the homefront.