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It is not an exaggeration to say that he was more or less a living legend by the mid-1960s. Marshall continued in his role as analyst and self-proclaimed military historian before, during and after the Korean War, authoring many more books and frequently appearing as a guest lecturer at Fort Leavenworth and other installations around the United States.

Marshall’s claims did not go unchallenged, but despite the disagreements they were widely accepted as truth both within the nation’s military and by those writing about the war and its American fighting force. It stays his trigger finger even though he is hardly conscious that it is a restraint upon him.’ This is his great handicap when he enters combat. The American, he concluded, comes ‘from a civilization in which aggression, connected with the taking of life, is prohibited and unacceptable….The fear of aggression has been expressed to him so strongly and absorbed by him so deeply and pervadingly - practically with his mother’s milk - that it is part of the normal man’s emotional make-up. Marshall had been assigned as a military analyst for the U.S. Marshall, or ‘Slam,’ concluded in a series of military journal articles and in his book, Men Against Fire, about America’s World War II soldiers. This was what the highly regarded Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, better known as S.L.A.

Day in, day out - it did not matter how long they had been soldiers, how many months of combat they had seen, or even that the enemy was about to overrun their position. In a squad of 10 men, on average fewer than three ever fired their weapons in combat. Men Against Fire: How Many Soldiers Actually Fired Their Weapons at the Enemy During the Vietnam War Close