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Early during the US War in Vietnam, incompetent American advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), who is also incompetent, get incredibly mad as they attempt to get them to fight the Viet Cong, despite the fact the Americans never bothered to tell the ARVN about the battle plan, and every ARVN commander on the ground has to ask for permission to do any command position in a game of telephone that goes all of the way up to the President of South Vietnam.

Sources:

David Elliot. The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975

David Halberstam. The Making of a Quagmire: American and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era.

Neil Sheehan. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/educational-services/staff-rides/VSR/Ap-Bac-Vietnam/Material/Ap-Bac%20Preliminary%20Study%20Guide%20V1.0.pdf

https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-at-ap-bac-changed-americas-view-of-the-vietnam-war/