Khaki Mafia

The Khaki Mafia is a novel about the Vietnam War by Robin Moore and June Collins, published by Crown in 1971. Collins was an entertainer who had performed for U.S. troops in Vietnam and later testified before a U.S. Senate committee about corruption among senior military personnel. The novel's lead character, an entertainer named Jody T. Neale, is based on Collins, and the plot details diversion of taxpayer money and other criminal activities by U.S. military officials in the war zone.

In the mid-1960s, Moore had written "The Green Berets," a novel celebrating the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. "The Khaki Mafia" takes a far more negative view, indicating the spread of anti-war attitudes late in the conflict.