But if we failed strategically

that is still a failure

We fucking ripped their asshole out with a tiny fraction of our army and when we got bored of it the commies went "see we won gottem guise"

Politically we were fucked

and it has shaped out military policy

@PugSlugger lol

And how were we fucked politicallyu?

That’s the fake “patriotic” version of events

It's a failure but it doesn't mean the vietcong were superior to the us

Manufactured by idiots

I'm not saying superior

but they won

If we went into total war against vietnam we could have literally flattened the entire nation. We were trying to win a psychological war to stop communism

no one is superior to anyone

Lol

If we wanted we could have wiped them off of the map

we were trying to fight an insurgency we inherited from the french

Lol Total War wouldn’t fucking work in that environment

It was a guerrilla war

...

I miss ww2

I agree total war in guerilla enviroments are nuts

You can’t just barrage front lines and charge because front lines barely fucking exist

I do too

I wish Hitler won

whoa

we miss ww2 for different reasons

I miss WW2 because we were allowed to kill nazis

good times

Yes. We were trying to stop commies in the population, which is why we were hardly using a fraction of our power. To say we "lost against farmers" is retarded

If it's not total war. It's just bullshit

Hitler was just trying to stop commies bro

We could have used one battleship and flattened the entire country. Or carpet bombed them until the land was uninhabitable.

>millions and millions of soldiers served
>my dad who lived through it said “everybody knew or was close to someone who’d died”

@PugSlugger We were involed in vietnam because the french were losing control of their colonial empire to communism and we stepped in to eradicate the communists. We tried hard to kill them but we did not because their guerilla tactics eventually won out.

We tried using battleships

“Carpet bombed them” that’s what we fucking did

They don't kill ratholes

It failed

Miserably

The Tet Offensive was brilliant