And yet the vietnamese have beaten french and american army.
When you said asian,is that included japaneses too ...
As for Singapore...well their army has never been a fight even though i do admit they has a modern defense tools
I said most (not all), look closely. Japan clearly is one of those exception. BTW no Asian militaries other than China now has pursue modernization and more importantly reforms as aggressive as that of Meiji era Japan.
there's not many military battles that North Vietnam won against the Americans, the conquest of the South is between the NVA and the Southern RVN. Simply put the US fight with one hand tied on its back in Vietnam.
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Seventeenth parallel, the provisional military demarcation line established in Vietnam by the Geneva Accords (1954). The line did not actually coincide with the 17th parallel but ran south of it, approximately along the Ben Hai River to the village of Bo Ho Su and from there due west to the
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that line is what's preventing the US to pursue the communist all the way to the Chinese border, basically there'a a base in which the communists could gather and prepare out of touch from US pursuer on the ground. And that means the North could pull the US into a protracted war that eventually exhaust them politically at home.
The war in Vietnam is just like the war in Afghanistan is a political defeat, not military defeat for the US.
Henry J Kissinger put it mildly :
“We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape — to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.”
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In th...
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