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Feel like this is really belittling to the VC and PAVN, the Ho Chi Minh trail is rightfully known as one of the greatest achievements of military engineering in the 20th century.
The North Vietnamese military didn’t win because America was just that incompetent, they had arguably a couple of the best generals in modern history. I mean they defended against the armies of France, America, cambodia and China within a couple decades.
It shows how insidious propaganda is when you can’t even avoid perpetuating it when you’re trying to boost the people it’s against.
So that’s the trick to defeating American imperialism, pointy sticks.
Yeah just leave some mcds out as bait. Maybe do it in DC and Florida
And being willing to have a couple dozen of your own guys get killed for every dead enemy. I feel this tiny detail is being overlooked in this thread.
It was closer to 3 - 1 during the first two Indochina wars, and 1 - 3 (in the other direction) during the third.
(The US weren’t the only enemy)
Worked well for native Americans
It’s like one side was fighting for literally everything, and the other side was a bunch of scared teenagers wondering why the fuck some tropical jungle on the other side of the planet was worth dying for. The only ones actually waking up wanting to fight at all were the psychopaths that just wanted to kill someone.
Weren’t the pointy sticks like, parts of traps?
Holy shit! This Lemmite is one of them! The death magic guys!
The ol poopypokeyhole…
Is there glory in it?
Negative.
Yeah, pointy sticks smeared with shit as a trap are quite effective when the traps are hidden in dense jungle.
I mean shit, even the predator couldn’t avoid those
I would have guessed that more than half of them had below average intelligence to be honest.
Well yeah they were american.
To be fair, that is how averages work.
On a bell curve half are above, half below the exact average point. If you take into account college students were exempt from the draft, you remove a chunk that’s likely mostly above the middle point. So by definition, the group leftover would be of below average intelligence, and more than 50% of people word fall below the average point.
Yes.
The only thing to add is that the intelligence we are talking about here is a social construct and the numbers used to express it have specifically been adjusted to give a normal distribution (a bell curve).
The Almighty Stick.
And you’re saying you made it even more deadly?
