Vietnam Thread?

Vietnam Thread?


What could the US have done differently to stamp out the NVA?

Did the South deserve support?

Was the Domino theory true?

Get captured NVA and VC fighters
Rape and torture them all to death
Find their families
Torture, mutilate, rape, and murder them all to the 9th degree
Make the villagers fear you more than the VC

The US crushed the VC.

The basic problem is that the North was protected by the Chinese, and China had the atom bomb.

As long as these two things were true, it would always be possible for the North to just keep sending people down to die.

Also, the South Vietnamese government sucked. Fundamentally, the war was caused by French people creating a massive hole of suck.

nothing, you cant mindcontrol ppl, if they are against you, you wont change their mind by killing them, no you cannot kill all of them

and before you edgy americans arrive, if you try anything, youll be eradicated by the rest of humanity

one of the bad moves of supporting a shithead corrupt organisation that was the "south"

obviously not, vietnam was lost, yet it didnt start a red infection all over the world

>The US crushed the VC.

no, US crushed the NVA.

>What could the US have done differently to stamp out the NVA?
They couldn't. You can't kill your way out of a quagmire. The only way to break the NVA would be to break their morale, which would take unthinkable actions.
>Did the South deserve support?
Only in that they were a better alternative than the North.
>Was the Domino theory true?
Nope, but IIRC there was a communist insurgency in Thailand that got quashed. Pic unrelated

Ask the North Koreans if it isn't possible. The point is to ingrain fear to such a degree in society that people will be afraid of going against you. The bravest of men are not afraid to die but how many of them would ask their families to die for such a cause? How many could stand watching the enemy smash the brains of babies against rock walls and rape and mutilate their women, starve their old and infirm, and annihilate their very people off the land?

In Apocalypse Now, Colonel Kurtz realized that the path to victory requires a sacrifice of your very humanity, to do immoral and even monstrous things, and that trying to fight a (((moral))) war is absurd. The only way to get people to work with you is to either appeal to their greed or to their fear.

>They couldn't. You can't kill your way out of a quagmire. The only way to break the NVA would be to break their morale, which would take unthinkable actions.
>nothing, you cant mindcontrol ppl, if they are against you, you wont change their mind by killing them, no you cannot kill all of them


How did the British Commonwealth destroy Malayan Communist morale then?

the germans tried the same, they failed miserably
NK unironically is supported by its populace, your meme brackets only prove you have no idea what you are talking about

Not fight them
Let the NVA take over and treat unified Vietnam like Yugoslavia, side with the soviets against china

by not having the majority of the ppl supporting them?
are younglings really this stupid, does browsing your ishits really makes you incapable of thinking?

The VC was more or less dead after 1968, but the NVA was in good enough shape to, you know, win the war.

Malayan communists were by and large chinese
pretty advantageous for the brits, as they could get ethnic malaysians do to the dirtiest of the work, and also meant that population they had to fuck with was both readily identifiable and a minority within the area of operations.

Malaya is easy mode. The insurgency was tiny and only supported by an ethnic minority. It didn't even get considerably support from China and the USSR.

Not to mention, again, the insurgency is not the problem. The very good conventional army of NV is the problem.

The G*rmans were too lenient with Western Europeans, and too autistic with the Eastern Europeans.

it ain't me

It's literally the exact, polar opposite.

The US raped the VC so badly that even two years after they withdrew, the VC played basically no part in the Ho Chi Minh offensive that took Saigon.

...

Because the Malayan government was actually good enough that people preferred it over the insurgents.

This is because it was made by British people and not French people.

>Also, the South Vietnamese government sucked.

This. Diep was autistically anti-Buddhist, which doesn't work in a Buddhist-majority country.

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3,500,000 dead gooks agree with you.

>yfw it's all his fault