If the Vietnam war was fought today how many casualties would we have?
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Date: July 22nd, 2017 8:33 PM Author: Crimson lay
i think it was kind of a mushy collision of several counterinsurgency ideas. the "strategic hamlets" program was based on an older french model called the "oil spot" strategy, which basically meant coming into a village for an extended period of time, collecting information about the insurgent networks, destroying the insurgent presence in the area, and then remaining there long enough to "flip" the village to strong government control.
that actually worked reasonably well where it was done according to the model. but there were too few soldiers to implement this strategy across all of south vietnam, so the idea was to send guys on expeditionary missions to find insurgents and wipe them out. but there were too damn many of them for that to be very effective.
so, villages would get occupied for a little while, the soldiers would move on, the village would fall back to the insurgents, the soldiers would go back in, the village would get wrecked due to repeated bouts of this process, homeless villagers joined the insurgents, etc.
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Date: July 22nd, 2017 8:42 PM Author: insanely creepy institution
casualty also includes wounded, so probably more casualties but less KIA
Iraq had less KIAs than Vietnam but ony because we have improved battlefield medicine, tens of thousands of horrible traumatic injuries
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