Re: [GZG] FTverse colinies

[Evyn MacDude <infojunky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On  May10 08, at 22:38, Richard Bell wrote:

The North Vietnamese  were not precisely low tech, nor ill-trained, and the americans did seem to do everything in their power to negate their own advantages, but the americans were very high tech for the time.  They failed for many reasons but high among them was failure to occuppy where they had searched and destroyed.

Point of order, The North Vietnamese were and are BAD ASS.... They whacked the Chinese after booting us out. But a lot of that is they were a strongly nationalistic army in defense of their homeland and experience fighting larger better equipped armies since the second world war. They had a very proficient army, they fought their own "vietnam" successfully removing the Khmer Rouge from power in Cambodia. 

Eisenhower's made one big mistake in not recognizing Vietnam as a single nation when the French got pasted, if he had there probably not be a communist state there now.

Evyn MacDude

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