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Originally Posted by Expat Canuck
This is a thread dedicated to the uneducated. From an outside perspective and the way the media spin it Iraq at times looks like another Vietnam. I'd like to hear from those in the know how it is similar and how most importantly it's differences and why this one is winnable.
Please post any information you can so myself and others know.
cheers!
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The main reason they are very different is because in Vietnam the VC were backed by a million man strong Army in the North that at times the US military was totally barred from attacking. By 1972 the US has all but wiped out the VC insurgency(and majoritively so by the end of Tet), forcing the insurgency in the South to rely almost entirely on NVA troops to carry on the fight.
In both wars the civvies meddled something fierce(in man it was the pres and SecDef, in Iraq it's just been the SecDef and his cronies).
There are really far more differences than similarities. Ie, Terrain, quality of opposition, etc, etc.