u/hoyarugby2

Amazon recommended me an upcoming book, Red State Mars, which seemed right up my alley - a hard military/thriller SF about a planetary invasion. But I was given enormous pause when I noticed that the "customers who bought this also bought" section had Camp of the Saints (infamously hyper racist novel that is a third bible for the far right, akin to the Turner Diaries) as its top result. Doing more research, the author of this has far right libertarian politics

I'm a big fan of military SF where the authors are generally conservative and their characters reflect that, I'm a big boy. But at the same time I'm not interested in financially rewarding somebody if their politics are sniffing camp of the saints territory

For those who have read Corcoran's other works, is this guy closer to a neo nazi or more of a garden variety libertarian?

I'm toying with planning a trip to Vietnam sometime in the next couple years, and visiting sites from the war would be my top priority. I've heard that outside of big national museums and the tunnel complex at Cu Chi (which is a tourist trap and bears little resemblance to the site during the war), there's not much at the moment. Is this the case or is my information outdated?

Is a war focused trip something you could do on your own, with hiring local guides for a day or two? Or to get a really good experience, would you need to take one of the history focused tours organized by groups back in the US or Australia?

Obviously many of the war's sites were in heavily rural/inaccessible areas, and some might still be contaminated by UXO

Thanks in advance!