[2ndDivisionVet]

They had a small war during my first tour in Korea back around 1979, IIRC.

[dsrtsage]

I will be interested to see. I will be in Hanoi on Tuesday.

[Cold Heat]

It's easy to Monday morning quarterback what happened during the early 1st half of the 20th century.

French Indochina, now Vietnam, was going through the same sort of things that prompted the revolts in India with Gandi.

Both of them were trying to rid themselves of a oppressive controlling statist Empire, being the British and the French.

Chiang Kai-shek tried on several occasions to get us to help them with arms or aid, indirectly of course..But we would not even entertain it until it war too late.

Neither of these turned out well, with the Vietnam war precipitating as a result in one, with the aid of some crappy border drawing by the UN, and in the other some more crappy border drawing left US with the Pakistan/India conflicts and not to forget Afghanistan, and Iraq with the Kurdish mess, and all the rest. Most of which might have been avoided with some more thoughtful borders or even a few less countries.

But it's easy to look at it now and say, if only...

[Cold Heat]

Excuse me 2nd Div...I must be past my expiration date. I meant to say Hồ Chí Minh. Not Chiang....... Chiang was later....lol, in China..

[castlegreyskull]

During that small war, China lost nearly as many men in two weeks as we did in our involvement.