A morality-oriented graduation speech to the US Air Force Academy: who should be your real heroes.

The talk refers to the corruption of the South Vietnamese army. According to A Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan, its main organizing principle was graft, and the corrupt officers made sure they could never win a real battle. The US, in supporting them, was imagining that they actually wanted to win. rather than keep collecting the graft.