We never shut down the harbor, never destroyed Hanoi, never flooded their fields..... but the geniuses from the Ivy League and the McNamara number crunchers just KNEW how to fight a war.... it's all numbers doncha know... f'ing pathetic.
We had learned from the Brits in Singapore and the French how to actually wage a counter insurgency but nobody had the stomach for it.
I'm just saving a bottle of my best Macallan single malt whisky.. for Jane Fonda's attempt to hold her breath for eternity and assuming room temperature. I raise a glass to my father who served near Da Nang and was wounded in Chu Li.
‘We had learned from the Brits in Singapore and the French how to actually wage a counter insurgency but nobody had the stomach for it.’
The Malayan campaign was brilliant. Shame it isn’t read by anyone in the US Army...not diverse enough.