As we engage in another 24 hour battle over Iran it is interesting to note how very different our war with the mullahs is from our war with the communists. We made our enemies our targets in this war and we politely ignored our enemies when they were communists in all the wars of the 20th century. It seems that 50 years of reliable, relentless and repeated teaching of military professionals about the idiotic mistakes made in Vietnam are finally paying off in our struggle against the Rest. It worked damned well in First Iraq and even in Second Iraq and it crushed the Taliban in weeks in Afghanistan. WE easily won the wars and lost the rest because it was no longer war. Our politicians suck at that. They need their own school to study how the Romans and the old Raj handled that phase of it in the past.
I'm not sure what the Air War in Vietnam was designed to produce. It did not target and gut the major cities in North Vietnam. It did not destroy the ports and harbors where so much aid and weaponry was brought in from the rest of the communist world. It did not blow apart the dams and flood the valleys to produce massive crop failures and famine. It did not destroy the power generation facilities, air fields, air forces or military units in North Vietnam. In fact, I'll be damned if I know what the B-52s were doing up there.
I'd like to read about what the bombers are attacking these days because while it would offer some insight into how the war is progressing, at least in terms of damage and loss, it would also be a damned good indicator of American Leadership's Sincerity this time about winning the war and killing our enemies. If all we're doing is going after water buffalo and bread factories it would be helpful to know that and realize that this is just another gigantic charade playing out for the rubes.
Let me help you out with the targeting hierarchy as I understand it:
Yes I know that some will say we negotiated formal peace treaties with the Japanese and the Germans but we didn't really negotiate, did we? Others might say well, the Vietnam War came to a negotiated end and all I would have to do is ask what happened to the other signatory on that treaty, you know the one, South Vietnam?
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America hasn't had a war on its own territory since May 26, 1865 the end of the civil war. 2026-1865=161 years (unless you want to quibble about Jananise troops in Alaska briefly). AND it shows.
Out two great oceans kept us from direct experience.
Technology has made them almost moot. Interdependence in critical supplies like oil, fertilizer, industrial chemicals, rare earths and so on have weakened that defense.
ICBM's were a threat but MAD kept that reasonably sane.
Now Drones makes it easy for any 2 bit drug warlord to destroy multi-million-dollar refineries, cripple power grids and destroy AI complexes.
What goes around comes around.
You would think that everyone would wake up now and see that. All the old chokeholds held nations in check. Nothing at aa can keep a determined fanatic from wasting a place. Kill Dozer was the Children’s Hour compared to now.
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