Isn’t that how our involvement in Vietnam started? Send in a few military advisors, and then 500,000 troops and 58,000 dead later,......
Exactly
“Isn’t that how our involvement in Vietnam started? Send in a few military advisors...”
Yes. But I think he’s talking about civilian contractors, mechanics especially, who can work with Ukrainian mechanics and teach them the ins-and-outs of the systems, so that the units (tanks, etc.) can be repaired quickly without having to go through some teleconference with someone in Poland who walks them through the job.
We did the same thing with Britain in WWII. We sent Britain a bunch of US-made aircraft, and we sent along civilian contractors to show the Brits how to service them.
It’s actually pretty common.
As much as I despise Vindman, what he is proposing is not unusual.
There's one big difference.
We didn't have people from Vietnam running our foreign policy, the way we have Galicians, Volhynians, and Poles running it today.