A former Viet Cong Buffalo-Boy tells James how he destroyed America’s high-tech marvel, the Mcnamara Line.

Viet Cong vets tell James that “Military Initiative” was the key.

Professor Robert Sauer describes the response to a virus as a “monumental government failure,” a “state-run religion” where believers brand truth-tellers as “heretics,” and that Americans are being hit with “phycological napalm.”

James recalls a Western tradition on the island of Con Dao.

“Vietnam is the future,” says Tom, the world expert on independent travel in Vietnam.

James talks about Vietnamese attitudes towards Americans.