All the stuff about the Viet Cong is just like... did you morons forget about the PAVN? You know, the ACTUAL ARMY the US was fighting, the one with tanks, and artillery, and planes? This wasn't a fucking counter-insurgency conflict (or at least, not entirely).
I've seen neocons cope before by saying the US actually won the counterinsurgency in Vietnam but lost the conventional war, therefore the US should stay in Afghanistan since the Taliban is only fighting insurgency there's no way it'll end like Vietnam :picard-troll:
After the Tet Offensive in 1968, the Vietcong were virtually eliminated. It is theorized that the NVA desired this outcome and encouraged them to rise up so that they could be destroyed, and a rival to postwar power be eliminated.
"The US literally eradicated the viet cong"
Then who were you shooting at :thonk:
All the stuff about the Viet Cong is just like... did you morons forget about the PAVN? You know, the ACTUAL ARMY the US was fighting, the one with tanks, and artillery, and planes? This wasn't a fucking counter-insurgency conflict (or at least, not entirely).
No bro it was just guys with guns made out of leaves and we beat them all and also didn't lose.
Meanwhile the Vietcong are building working copies of American guns in a tool shed and they just shrug
I've seen neocons cope before by saying the US actually won the counterinsurgency in Vietnam but lost the conventional war, therefore the US should stay in Afghanistan since the Taliban is only fighting insurgency there's no way it'll end like Vietnam :picard-troll:
The North Vietnamese Army.
After the Tet Offensive in 1968, the Vietcong were virtually eliminated. It is theorized that the NVA desired this outcome and encouraged them to rise up so that they could be destroyed, and a rival to postwar power be eliminated.