Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Vietnam an Unwinnable War?" video.

  1. True, but was holding territory a viable option? The Green Berets had an interesting strategy with the Montagnards, creating village based defensive forces, but it wasn’t scalable—MACV tried and failed with the model hamlet program. The underlying problem for counter-insurgency operations is political, the relationship between the government and the people. The insurgency had popular support for the most part (and would ruthlessly eliminate those who didn’t support them). The SVG lacked this support mostly because it’s leadership was so corrupt, going back to Diem.
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  2. There’s a Vietnam era sick joke about how the war could have been ended. 1) Put all the friendlies (non-communists) on boats and ships in the South China Sea 2) Bomb the country until all the communists are dead and not a tree is left standing 3) Sink all the boats and ships
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  3. Torin Jones good point, but also the British strategy there was to GTFO as quickly as they could hand indochina back to the French.
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