I read the The Things They Carried for freshman English. I don't remember anything I found objectionable from it. A lot of the 80s anti-government/militia/white nationalist types are a result of how white veterans realized they'd been shafted by the government.
One of my favorite war movies is The Thin Red Line which is a Malick flick. F*ck Jane Fonda. Vietnam was when our ruling class started having less skin in the game by not sending their own sons over. The American Military arguably hasn't won a real war since WWII.