Dumass, the Vietnamese merely moved into the countryside until the battle was over. Don't be so dramatic about the small stuff.How did you convince an overwhelmingly rural population like the Vietnamese to vacate the fields, hills, and woods their families had lived on longer than your country has been existence?General George, how many times do you have to be reminded that the Vietnam war wasWrong again.
Ten days in the AF does not qualify one as a "veteran".
And I'm proud I didn't support in any small way the terrorism you helped unleash on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
mainly fought in the fields, hills and woods, away from civilians. Cities were fought in when they were attacked by the Commies. Villages were razed when the Commies holed up in them. Civilians, unless they were avid Commie sympathizers, would always vacate the villages. They weren't held as human shields like the craven cowards of Islum practice. Get real or go away.
"The Strategic Hamlet Program (Vietnamese: Ấp Chiến lược) was a plan by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to combat the Communist insurgency by means of population transfer.
"In 1961, U.S. advisors in South Vietnam, along with the Diem regime, began the implementation of a plan attempted to isolate rural peasants from contact with and influence by the National Liberation Front (NLF).
"The Strategic Hamlet Program, along with its predecessor, the Rural Community Development Program, played an important role in the shaping of events in South Vietnam during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
"Both of these programs attempted to create new communities of "protected hamlets".
"The rural peasants would be provided security, being physically isolated from Communist insurgents and support services thereby strengthening ties with the central South Vietnamese government (GVN).
"It was hoped this would lead to increased loyalty by the peasantry towards the government.[1]
"In the end, the program led to a decrease in support for Diem’s regime and an increase in sympathy for Communist efforts."
Strategic Hamlet Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, yeah.
Now I remember.
The same way Hitler convinced the Jews and Gypsies.
Thanks for your service.
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