Was Vietnam the most boring major war of the 20th century? When I think about Vietnam, everything that comes to my mind is American soldiers walking through the jungle for days, playing a cat and mouse game against the Viet Cong and its allies. After weeks of looking for the enemy, they would eventually find them and raid their villages with helicopters, burn everything down and that's it. Until some new VC cell appeared, and this would have to repeat.
Only some important offensives like Tet did have conventional warfare. but most of this war was guerrilla warfare. Well, there was conventional warfare against the NVA, but even those engagements were very slow and tedious, because of the terrain. Most of the combat was between infantry because tanks and wheeled vehicles were useless there. Only in the low lands we actually had something that looked like conventional warfare.
The 1974 Spring offensive was probably the most exciting moment of the war. The rest of the war didn't have a lot of remarkable battles, except for some of the most important offensives. Compare this with World War II, where you had huge armored columns clashing against each other. It was far more impressive than the war in Vietnam. WW1 was a very slow and tedious war too, but I think even that war was more interesting than Vietnam
I'm sure it wasn't boring to the people crawling through narrow tunnels and worrying about falling into punji traps
Colton Walker
Well for the spectator it's a very boring war.
Parker Ortiz
I have the same problem with the island hoping campaign in ww2. doesn't matter in what form the media comes in it usually puts me to sleep.
Matthew Morris
I think it was boring for the soldiers too. It was an extremely frustrating war, and this lowered the morale of the American GIs.
Parker Russell
The war on the DMZ was vastly different than the search and destroy guerrilla war against the VC.
Battle of Dai Do, a battalion-size Marine force eventually supported with some Army vs an entire NVA Division, both with supporting arms and armor, and extremely bloody for both sides. Happened while the M-16 was still such a clusterfuck that almost all the Marines were using captured AK-47's.
Rising Storm 2 will help ya feel another way buddy
Aaron Lewis
I believe that that would be the 6 day war actually.
Juan Sanchez
Nope. The Gulf War was. >Muh airstrikes. Boring as fuck.
Jonathan Richardson
>gulf war >boring it was short and decisive but boring it was not
Gavin Flores
Most war is boring.
Jeremiah Harris
>B-but senpai, why would you compare conventional warfare to the seek and destroy tactics of vietnam? They're different :^)
Jaxon Torres
>burger drafted for war against rice farmers >know it will be the easiest thing in the world, go in with highest morale possible >after three weeks of fighting the vegetation and finding nothing realize you will be walking aimlessly in this jungle for the rest of your life because desertion is far more unlikely than immediate victory >step on explosive that some rice farmer randomly put there a month ago, taking five others with you
Nolan Garcia
it's only cool if you completely throw realism out the window like WaW or something and turn it into jungle stalingrad
Hudson Peterson
It was pretty boooooooring for most infantry units. Pic related tells a rather interesting story about it, both book and movie are fine. Pretty much only thing in movie that triggers me is the fake Abrams built from a Chieftain. It's not the vismod tank, but the fact that 'muhreens didn't use Abrams back then.
Nathaniel James
cont...
The thing that triggers me.
Benjamin Peterson
I mean... battles like Iwo, Okinawa, Guadal, Peleliu and Tarawa pretty much were Pacific Stalingrads. I mean let's just look at Guadalcanal, if you don't take the island then Australia is cut off from the North and East. Let's narrow the scope to the battle of Henderson Field. The japs just landed fresh reinforcements. You're low on ammo. Your source of food is captured jap rice that's pretty well full of maggots by now. You're low on water. Your supply ships and their escort fleet got ran off despite being "victorious" against the jap flotilla last night. This airfield is your only chance at supply unless by some miracle a new supply flotilla arrives. They don't. So you get posted on a line surrounding the airfield. There aren't enough of you so there are large gaps in the line. Night falls. It's hot and humid, just like any other night in the South Pacific. You hear what sounds like rustling over the cacaphony of insects. A flare goes up, you see Japs in the barbed wire. All hell breaks loose. Mortars, machine guns, everything seemingly trying to drown out the screams of TENNO HEIKO BANZAI. You get on your M1919 and start shooting. The japs are falling left and right but they keep coming so you keep shooting. The screams just get louder. They keep coming and you keep shooting. The bodies are getting so stacked that you cant see the Japs behind them trying to crawl over. They keep coming and you keep shooting. Using the bodies as cover the japs infiltrate your line and you're forced into CQB. You manage to kill the japs in your line and one of your squadmates runs out and makes a hole in the bodies so you have a clear field of fire. The japs don't care. They keep coming and you keep shooting like a fucking nightmare. Rinse repeat for several hours. Day breaks and all you see is pic related. One battle down, 3 years to go and the shit hasn't even hit the fan yet.
John Cruz
Fuck. Pic related is here
Kayden Collins
>it's only cool if you completely throw realism out the window like WaW or something and turn it into jungle stalingrad
Most island battles were much smaller, but lot of 'em were pretty fucking intensive. Tarawa, Peleliu, Wake Island and Iwo Jima for example were pretty fucking intensive battles with quite a lot of troops in ridiculously small islands.
Peleliu is probably one of most fucked up battles in military history. What they told to 'muhrines was that Japs will last for four days....then if got into couple weeks.... and actually battle went on for almost three months. In first week after landing supplying beachhead was bit problematic and there were no fresh water around. The ironic part of it is that whole battle was essentially pointless, island was never used as airbase as intended. Airfield could have been bombarded with warships into oblivion, then prevent Japs from repairing it by repeating that bombardment every once in a while with cruiser squadron or something. Something much lighter than initial bombardment, still cheaper than 3k dead and 8k wounded.
Capcha is slightly spooky today.
>TENNO HEIKO BANZAI.
Have you played RS?
Leo Cook
>t. hasn't seen Apocalypse now and Platoon
Alexander Thomas
But it had the most epic naval battles in history.
Samuel Gonzalez
>everyone in your country is gettin laid because of sexual revolution, drugs and shit >you're fighting overseas
damn it sucks
Samuel Cooper
Most of naval battles in WWII were one sided as fuck. None of those compare well against Jutland.
Elijah Powell
~100 casualties a month for ~10 years Its not really boring desu senpai
David Murphy
American education detected.
Brody Richardson
Vietnam had the best soundtrack of any war.
Logan Watson
>Midway >Coral Sea >one-sided
Levi Miller
>Most war is boring. >HATE is boring. not extreme enough for you. this shit is autistic as most of the other threads on Veeky Forums of late.
James Edwards
>MiGs vs F-4 Phantoms >boring
Pick one.
Wyatt Anderson
Most wars are boring most of the time for most of the people involved. They only seem interesting because we learn about the exciting and decisive parts.
Samuel Sanchez
If Vietnam were boring it wouldn't have spawned so many great movies.
Daniel Adams
>Was Vietnam the most boring major war of the 20th century? When I think about Vietnam....i wake up in a cold sweat, screaming...yeah, me too.
Brandon James
they should start making Vietnam movies again
>tfw it ain't me starts playing
Adrian James
Half of those movies are shit and the other half just further the mythologue that Vietnam became. There isn't any actually good Vietnam movies. There are good movies that draw on the myths of Vietnam, but no good Vietnam movies.
Cameron Edwards
>born on the 4th of july >platoon >myths. I will agree that some of them on the chart like apocalypse now and rambo are heavily romanticized but born on the fourth of july and platoon were directed by a former Vietnam veteran and born on the fourth of july was a biography
unless you had put them in the shit category. in which case you should just kill yourself
Jordan Gutierrez
>unless you had put them in the shit category. >in which case you should just kill yourself They're shit movies, though. Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Casualties of War and Rescue Dawn are shitty movies. I think Deer Hunter is a shitty movie too, but that's just personal taste. Stone even admitted he took a lot of liberties with his portrayal of Vietnam in Platoon because his original script didn't go over well.
William James
It was just a quick imagine I put together off the top of my head, it wasn't meant to be some kind of definitive "best Vietnam movies" list.
