Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:06 AM 2/26/04 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: > >But...Given the Vietnamese success in ambushing patrols during that >conflict, I would guess that the Vietnamese hanging around the U.S. >bases and camps - to say nothing of some members of the South Vietnamese >military - were a much more serious threat to U.S. troops than was the >occasional journalistic security lapse. To be fair, BD, that is a bit of an urban myth. The US military was, on the whole, better at ambushing NLF forces than was the opposite, though the media flipped the picture in the reportage. The ambushing bit pretty much died away, in any event, after Tet, as Tet marked the effective destruction of the Viet Cong, and the battle after that was with PRVN Army mainline units, who had as little interest in tip-and-run raids as did our military. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html