10-07-2017, 06:47 PM
(10-05-2017, 11:22 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: ^This
Ideally, we wanted the South Vietnamese to do their own fighting and win their own war. And they generally tried to do that. However, there were flaws in their government that undermined everything and tore the South Vietnamese people apart rather than bringing them together (something we in America ought to consider today).
Yeah, that was one of the elements well-explained in the doc, and that I found enlightening, that it wasn't a simple case of the ARVN soldiers being inept or cowardly. They did fight, bravely by some accounts, and died by the bushel. That wasn't the impression I'd been given over the years.
