They are personal stories about soldiers and the background is the war.
Michael Wayne, who produced the film for his father’s company, claimed that The Green Berets did not tell a controversial story: “It was the story of a group of guys who could have been in any war. Unlike earlier wars, however, the Vietnam War did not unite the nation to a common cause, but tore it apart. We want to do it in a manner that will inspire a patriotic attitude on the part of fellow Americans-a feeling which we have always had in this country in the past during times of stress and trouble.”
The most effective way to accomplish this is through the motion picture medium.” He thought he could make the “kind of picture that will help our cause throughout the world.” According to Wayne, it would “tell the story of our fighting men in Vietnam with reason, emotion, characterization, and action. In writing to President Johnson in December 1965 about his intention to make a film about the Green Berets, John Wayne explained that it was “extremely important that not only the people of the United States but those all over the world should know why it is necessary for us to be there.