Re: Printed works of future combat

You wrote: 

>_Tank Sargent_ by Ralph Zumbro. The only first-person account of armor
>actions in Vietnam that I've been able to find. Reminds me a bit of
>Hammer's Slammers, but that's not surprising, as I believe Drake was
>attached to a unit similar to this one.

He was an interrogator/interpreter for a squadron of the 11th ACR 
during 1970.  When he got back, he found himself writing Vietnam 
stories that didn't sell.  So he put it in a rayguns and rockets 
setting, and found that it sold much better.  The only one that's not 
even loosly Vietnam based is, of course, Counting the Cost, which is 
based on the Nika riots in Constantinople during the reign of Justinian 
the Great.

John M. Atkinson