Colonel David H. Hackworth, known as Hack, is a living legend. He is one of America's most decorated soldiers from the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He is also one of the US military's biggest critics. Out of principle he resigned from the US Army because the Vietnam War was being fought with the wrong strategy. When the Iraq War broke out in 2003 he was also one of those who joined the chorus of opposition. But now he has changed his mind.

Hack once had the courage to write, "Vietnam is the toughest war we've ever fought and were going at it as though we're fighting World War II over again. In my experience over there