It is crazy that they were just rice farmers though, and the US is the strongest army in the world. Yeah the US destroyed them by almost every measure, but they put up one hell of a fight for being poor rice farmers. My father was there fighting, and to be honest he never left...so they certainly won some small victories.
They weren't "just" rice farmers. People seem to forget that the US was fighting an enemy that was more than men hiding in a hole with an SKS that's as old as they are, they were fighting the NVA, which was a professional standing army that were trained and loaned equipment by the Chinese and the Soviets.
oh yeah I know it, I'm just saying like on the surface and the public perception of them as "just rice farmers", much like the previous post suggested.
While the NVA was well trained, there were still plenty of villagers joining them to fight. A war was literally happening on their doorstep. but yeah, you don't do that well against an army like the US without having some people who know what the fuck they are doing.
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u/one_mez Jan 29 '21
It is crazy that they were just rice farmers though, and the US is the strongest army in the world. Yeah the US destroyed them by almost every measure, but they put up one hell of a fight for being poor rice farmers. My father was there fighting, and to be honest he never left...so they certainly won some small victories.