or looking at a vc battalion sort of being ripped to shreds with sort of american military machinery which the north vietnamese didn't have. so i don't quite understand. i see sort of remnants of what's taking place today with the, you know, the previous question, and i don't understand how that, how, you know, sort of tweaking proportionality, you know, how that still isn't taking place today and how, you know, why we should still understand that. so i think what you're getting at is extremely important. you know, maybe i'm drawing too many simple analogies from vietnam, but that is one thing. free fire zone, westmoreland basically stipulated all of south south vietnam was a free fire zone. and in many ways you can't stipulate, okay, this part is okay to bomb, this part is isn't. that was the case. those were the issues, you know, at play in south vietnam during the war. so, you know, although as a historian context is important, i hate to draw simple analogies with the vietnam war, with wars today, but you can see sort of mistakes being repeated again and again. >> just on the broa