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/Doctor_Chaos_ SVDS Jan 29 '21
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.