We may not have had the sophisticated weapons systems that we have today, but we had superior weaponry to the NORKS and, even better, we had superior numbers of troops that could be deployed, if necessary.
Today, we would be hard-pressed to maintain an offensive against Luxembourg. Iraq and Afghanistan have depleted and exhausted our military - most of whom have come from the ranks of the reserves - as the result of repeated deployments to those s**tholes.
As long as our military-hating tinpot dictators want to play “soldier” all the while cutting the military, this is a formula that simply won’t work.
Vietnam, IMO, was America’s “experiment” with guerilla warfare and our generals and admirals discovered that we don’t know squat about it; still don’t. The irony is that the guerillas use similar tactics that our own Militiamen did during the Revolutionary War. It defeated the Brits and it is now defeating us.
This proves the old adage, “those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it,” or words to that affect. The militiamen of 1775 weren’t bound by insane ROE by their “leadership.”