@danmmeyer@WDE2011 The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam is a good book on the first year of the war, covers the early stages and then goes into detail about the Chinese offensive.
@michaelbd I'm at a loss as to whether that post is supposed to be serious. I'm almost positive there are no deli managers and Wawa supervisors with a seven figure worth. And yeah the suburbs here are basically off limits for anyone with a household income of under like $250k.
@SankarasGuitar@UmbriciusR even the Viet Cong were organized into regiments, divisions, companies, etc. with a command hierarchy and training camps. Calling them a bunch of farmers is a disservice to everyone involved.
@SankarasGuitar@UmbriciusR modern leftists take away from what the Viet Minh/NVA and FLN actually were by calling them farmers all the time. These were basically large, well trained professional armies and yet they get meme'd as farmers by their own modern supporters.
@whyvert We tried "strategic hamlets" in Vietnam to be fair. It'll be interesting to see if the evacuation orders result in fewer civilian deaths, in Gaza they obviously didn't.
@BrigadierKetch Lithuania with basketball always comes to mind. They punch way above their weight for such a tiny country in a really competitive sport
@Cernovich The hateful stuff coincided with their numbers becoming so great. It wasn't that they actually liked us it was just that there weren't that many of them yet.