The New Soldier was published as both a hard and soft cover book in October, 1971, by Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

Principally a photographic essay accompanied by text, the work was edited by David Thorne and George Butler, with a section written by John Kerry.

[1] This pseudo-operation, "a limited incursion into the country of Congress", was basically a series of demonstrations, marches and street theatre designed to protest US involvement in the war in Vietnam.

The desire had been to hold the service on the actual hallowed grounds but the Vietnam Veteran demonstrators were locked out of Arlington.

To some readers, a shortcoming of The New Soldier is that the words spoken by this Vietnam War battlefield chaplain, a United Methodist clergyman, were not included in the volume.