Off topic - but long overdue.
Personally I am sick of those who take the casual cheap shot that the Vietnam war was a “loss”.
With their suffering and deaths the Vietnam soldiers won a great strategic victory - the prevention of the fall of the Indochina region to the Soviets.
The Japanese accomplished that in 1942 and it was a disaster for the west.
Coupled with Soviets moves in Africa and the ME the fall of Malaya would have cut the west off from ME oil and made the Indian Ocean a Soviet lake.
They stopped the fall of Indochina with 10 years of hard fighting only to be scorned by an ungrateful nation and its whorish media.
Someday their victory may be seen and acknowledged - but apparently not yet in this benighted country.
On topic.
At Omdurman the British destroyed a Madhist army that had earlier overwhelmed Gen. Gordon at Khartoum in Sudan.
Of that victory it was said “we had the Maxim, which they had not.”
The Madhist army had spears and swords, while the British made use of gunboats, cannon and machineguns.
Napoleon first wiped out the Mamelukes of Egypt in 1800, beginning the Anglo-French domination of that country - followed by the Euro occupations of muslim countries from Morocco to Indonesia.
That period of less than 2 centuries was the only time that islam has not been at relentless war with the west.
Prior to that muslim pirates freely roamed the Med in slaving raids, and the Turks were shooting their way into Europe.
That time is returning - and this time, not only do they have the Maxim - they have nukes.
We are currently living in a dictatorship of the weak, but the future will be no place for the weak.