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Dialectic 14 points ago +15 / -1

“It aint much but it’s honest work” drops napalm

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stonepony 14 points ago +15 / -1

Yeah, the Communist forces in Vietnam were more like guerilla fighters. Organized and in uniform, and they never won a single campaign. The K:D ratios were off the charts. By the end of the war they controlled no territory. etc.

If they had all taken off their uniforms to blend in with the broader civilian population, it would have been all but impossible to fight them.

Hence, literally retarded (clinically retarded), inbred cave people strung out on heroin in Afghanistan are such a problem.

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okboomer59 8 points ago +9 / -1

Based. NVA never achieved an objective. US never failed to achieve an objective. But the Viet Cong guerillas did blend in, to outsiders. Yet the VC, too, failed at everything but butchering women children, and elders, as at Huế. Until the NVA used the Tet offensive to wipe out the VC. (Thereafter, 'VC' would be NVA under VC cover.) The most humiliating failure of the NVA, yet Walter Cronkite lamented that it signaled stalemate. Who was that NVA general who said the war was won in the US?

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Uzaka123 6 points ago +6 / -0

Militarily we crushed north Vietnam. We should've leveled them when they broke the truce, but ultimately the south vietnamese didn't care who was in charge anyway, which is why they lost.

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peltast 1 point ago +1 / -0

This. It wasn't their great savvy, it was their great apathy. Had the South given a crap, they would be in charge now. But, their corruption, disinterest and our own waffling thanks to commie disinformation lost the war.

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Based_Asian 1 point ago +1 / -0

Militarily we crushed north Vietnam. We should've leveled them when they broke the truce

Correct. Fun fact of irony: US bombed Hanoi 11 days Dec 18, 1972 – Dec 29, 1972. The North Vietnamese Commies were readying their white flags to surrender on the 12th day of bombings, but once they realized US stopped bombing on that faithful day, the order to surrender was recanted.

but ultimately the south vietnamese didn't care who was in charge anyway, which is why they lost.

Incorrect. Without effective counter-attack by South Vietnamese Army under US air support, Saigon and Hue would have been lost to Commies during Tet Offensive 1968. South Vietnam eventually fell in 1975 because traitorous Zionist Kissinger advised Nixon to shake hands with Commie China and stopped supplying South Vietnam starting in 1972

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