***Um  the New York Times and LA Times are biased in some way when they repeatedly name him as an "Historian"?  UCBerkeley had him head the Indochina Center - they are noted as biassed against the left in some way?   Sorry - he was an historian, and was respected as such by UCBerkeley, the NYT (His books, all on Vietnam, were praised for their authoritativeness. In The Washington Post, Col. Harry G. Summers Jr. called his book on the North Vietnamese Army, 'PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam' (Presidio, 1986), 'without question the best work available on what is now the world's third-largest military force.' ), LAT,  etc.  His position on the Hue massacre was unchanged in 1996   belying claims that his position was proven false by anyone.  Etc.  Historian.  Cheers.