Turse's Kill Anything That Moves is a tough, but worthwhile read. It explores, with graphic and haunting detail, the lengthy list of atrocities committed by American soldiers in Vietnam. This book is very well-researched and demonstrates quite clearly that massacres and tragedies resulting in immense loses of Vietnamese lives were the rule, not the exception during the conflict. It was difficult to read, but I'm glad I was able to get through it. My knowledge of the conflict in Vietnam was quite limited and I left this book feeling like I learned a lot. Beyond the gruesome details of violence perpetrated against Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers, I think the most disturbing aspect of the book was the concept of "technowar" - which isn't Turse's invention but was new to me nonetheless. Technowar is a strategy that relies on using body count as a proxy for American success in the conflict. Higher-ups in the military applied immense pressure on their soldiers to produce high body counts so they could demonstrate their effectiveness as military leaders. Individual soldiers were able to receive additional perks and benefits for producing high body counts. In theory, these body counts were supposed to consist entirely of enemy soldiers, but as Turse's book explains, the majority of these bodies were innocent Vietnamese civilians who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Seeing the capitalist push for efficiency and productivity above all else applied to something like war disgusted me beyond words. The attempt by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and other high-level officials to reduce war to a mere numbers game explainable by data alone is especially haunting today, in a time of big data and AI. While this book gave me a lot to think about, I felt that it suffered from some major organizational issues which is why it ultimately landed at 3 stars for me. Turse's book lacks an overarching structure - often times there is little understanding why we are focusing on a particular gruesome event at a particular point in the novel. We bounce from tragedy to tragedy, massacre to massacre, with no narrative or chronological through line to link them together. This makes it easy for the reader to get lost. Additionally, the book markets itself as Turse revealing "for the first time how official policies resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded" but after reading this book, it was hard for me to pinpoint what information exactly was garnered as a result of Turse's own investigations, versus was already well known by historians of the Vietnam War. I would've loved to hear more about Turse's investigation - why he chose to undergo it and what exactly he was able to discover that was new to the conversation.