If pajama clad Vietcong ran the mighty superpower USA out of Vietnam, with Americans escaping from roof tops in helicopters, why is this a surprise?
Can someone name ONE war which was won against guerilla tactics? Does Russia ever wanted to OCCUPY Ukraine? Only naive people believe that. Putin’s goal was never to occupy Kiev. Putin’s main goal was to occupy Donbas and possibly open land access to Crimea and control all access to Black Sea.
“If pajama clad Vietcong ran the mighty superpower USA out of Vietnam, with Americans escaping from roof tops in helicopters, why is this a surprise?”
You have no idea what you are talking about. The VC ceased to exist as an effective fighting force in 1968, as they were clobbered during the Tet Offensive. The VC never recovered from that, and were pretty much out of the war afterwards.
Boer War-South Africa
Philipine-American War.
Baltic-Soviet campaign in the 50's. guess who won?
Argentina, Uraguay, El Salvador, Peru and Chile.
Chechnya
Naxal insurgency
I think your confusing the Viet cong with Walter Cronkite.
“If pajama clad Vietcong ran the mighty superpower USA out of Vietnam, with Americans escaping from roof tops in helicopters, why is this a surprise?...”
Your analysis is erroneous.
American military power was only spottily applied during the intervention in Southeast Asia. At that, it terminated the VC in response to the Tet offensive on 1968. North Vietnamese forces fought the remainder of the war.
US political leadership - mostly elected by the citizenry - was frightened into walking away by the radical Left, and by middle-class parents who couldn’t bear to see their kids’ college deferments revoked.
The Indian wars.
In other words, the way the US Army and Volunteers USED to fight.
Today, we call it genocide.
And it was.
The only way to win a war like is to kill all the ones that will fight.
Huh? You have that all wrong.