[Restorer]

Welcome to the real world.

Soldiers have always seen wars just from their own limited perspective. It's inevitable, since trotting all over a battlefield trying to get an overview generally results in winding up dead.

BTW, most of the journalists' Godlike "overview" during the Vietnam War was simply an illusion they successfully projected back to America. For instance, they managed to portray the Tet Offensive, a catastrophic defeat for the Vietcong, as a victory for them.

And most of their writing was done from the perspective of Saigon bars.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

They knew what their publishers wanted to advocate.