I was nin, nin, nin, nineteen in 1970  it was no secret that the war was not in our best interest and would not end well.
 
“19”    by Paul Hardcastle :                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaNaCoYxeaE

Posted by: jr | Apr 21 2026 17:15 utc | 3

Where are the brave reporters/press that will point out his ‘bone spurs’ excuse to his face (that he used to get out of serving)?  That moment alone would sink what’s left of his presidency. 
 
Posted by: bored | Apr 21 2026 17:03 utc | 1

 
Umm, nice thought, but no, it wouldn’t.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 21 2026 17:27 utc | 5

except, maybe, by nukes.

 
And that’s what worries me. The bar for using nukes is, I think, much lower than many here realize. It will not trigger instant Armageddon if the US uses them against Iran. The Russians will do nothing beyond issue some sternly worded objections at the UN. China likewise isn’t ready to end the game. Pakistan is too weak an ally to step up when nukes start flying. The Empire will even be able to argue that it was a “restrained” strike, only a dozen devices or so, and most everyone will accept that. 
 
Now, nukes likely won’t win the Empire the war, but there are not many other options for escalation at this point. 

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 21 2026 17:29 utc | 7

@4
 
Marbles all over the playpen 

Posted by: paddy | Apr 21 2026 17:31 utc | 9

@7
 
Suppose Kim Jung Un sees Trump as role model?  Nukes raining down from Japan to Guam….

Posted by: paddy | Apr 21 2026 17:32 utc | 11

Cain keeping the football away from Trump: report

Posted by: nwwoods | Apr 21 2026 17:33 utc | 13

And that’s what worries me. The bar for using nukes is, I think, much lower than many here realize. It will not trigger instant Armageddon if the US uses them against Iran. The Russians will do nothing beyond issue some sternly worded objections at the UN. China likewise isn’t ready to end the game. Pakistan is too weak an ally to step up when nukes start flying. The Empire will even be able to argue that it was a “restrained” strike, only a dozen devices or so, and most everyone will accept that.  Now, nukes likely won’t win the Empire the war, but there are not many other options for escalation at this point. 
Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 21 2026 17:29 utc | 7
 
I agree.  Once the novelty of the blockade wears thin, the only options left are 1) destroying all energy sources in west Asia and 2) nuking Iran.
 
My hope is that American imperialists are running things and their goal is to deny west Asian energy to China – as they already cut off Venezuelan oil.  In that case they could declare Mission Accomplished and skip the nukes.
 
However if Zionists are running everything then you know that nuking Iran is inevitable.

Posted by: EoinW | Apr 21 2026 17:41 utc | 15

@ William Gruff | Apr 21 2026 17:41 utc | 14
 
canada is hopeless on the international stage… stuck  between servitude to usa and uk, and barely capable of voicing an independent thought of it’s own… carney speech at davos, or where ever it was, a few months ago – just more hot air from an empty suit… 

Posted by: james | Apr 21 2026 17:44 utc | 17

IMO, it’s very likely Trump is doing just that in his confabulatory mind. Some general similarities exist between the two wars–both were/are Imperialist/Anti-Colonial wars being waged against/by peoples the Outlaw US Empire doesn’t understand that the Empire has no real means of winning politically, the Empire’s goal being to prevent the nationals becoming independent of Imperial control. The Vietnamese gained their independence, took two decades to rebuild primarily because the Empire and its allies reneged on paying reparations, and today are prospering in a manner very similar to China because it has employed a very similar political economy. IMO, Iran is on a similar track as that of Vietnam, but unlike Vietnam Iran must expel all influence of its primary enemies from its region, a task Pol Pot in Cambodia didn’t represent for Vietnam. 
 
So, yes, there are some general similarities; I should also mention racism being a major component in both conflicts. One last similarity is the ruination experienced by the Empire’s economy as a result of Vietnam and what we’re likely to see as a result from the US War on Iran. Ben Norton of Geopolitical Economy got Michael Hudson’s view of US economic fragility as it started the war and how it will affect it. For those who missed the notification, Hudson’s Democracy Collective essay he’s renamed “Strait Power” is now available at his website. The exact affects of its war on Iran have yet to manifest themselves, although energy and related inflation is already on the rise are clearly noted. The Vietnam War forced the Empiree off the gold standard and made unrestrained Neoliberalism possible. It’s clear Iran has taken aim at the US Petrodollar and had a good chance of vastly decreasing its power and ability to enrich the Empire and power its economy. Other affects are likely such as the collapsing Private debt Ponzi Scheme that’s now being noticed and discussed. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 21 2026 17:49 utc | 19

The US burned through its gold reserves and created the Petro-dollar with Vietnam. 
 
Petro-dollar is now burned up and US has massive debts getting more massive by the minute. To reposition itself for the next decades, US is going for virtually total control of world petroleum supplies. Iran is critical to US taking full control of the Persian gulf oil and gas.
 
Nixon was at least smart enough to Keep Kissinger away from anything Israel related. Trump, from earliest interviews has always said “We should have taken the oil”. Trump is also full blown Zio. Hegsth the secretary for war crimes, full blown zio christian. Jews and oil, jews and oil ….

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 21 2026 17:54 utc | 21

Use of nukes in a war of choice would be a 25th Amendment step for the prez as well as an unforgivable war crime for any military leader who’d carry out the order. I don’t think it’s a real threat … or at least I pray … 
 
I think trump is just doing his I’d do everything better schtick … the war he was too chicken to go to is the war he’d win. Sure thing, boss. 

Posted by: Caliman | Apr 21 2026 17:58 utc | 23

The whole west is corrupt beyond repair. Trias politica was ment to prevent having a narcists with the finger on the button. I said it a hundred times, a narcist rather destroys the world before admitting his loss. Two weeks before the war I said China should mobilize, they can in such short time, to protect Iran. This would decrease the chance on a war as it would make US losses very high. One war that I wanted to avoid, you can see yourself why this war had to be prevented. With a narcist you surrender or get total destruction. The world is silent, hope is not a strategy and the world will come to regret it. If only democracy still existed it would stop Trump.

Posted by: Isidoor | Apr 21 2026 18:01 utc | 25

arby is speechless, lol!

Posted by: james | Apr 21 2026 18:05 utc | 27

 karlof1 | Apr 21 2026 17:49 utc | 19
 
Perhaps I do not know enough about the economics of the era, but my thought is that Vietnam was not existential for the US.
Iran I see as existential. As for the petro-dollar, Iran was used as a major tool in creating that. At that time, US had just completed the trans Alaska pipeline and became virtually self sufficient in oil. US has secured the Venezuela oil this time around. Medhurst is looking at US now creating a petro-gas dollar but I think us is is simply going for total control of the worlds oil and gas. Trump expended a full year trying to do petroleum related deals with Russia – nordstream, joint ventures in Alaska as Russia has the arctic tech. Basically looking a crating an oil and gas two country cartel with Russia.
Everything outside Russia, US can simply take including Alberta. Iran is the main stumbling block to full US control of Persian Gulf oil though and taking that is existential to the US economy and power over the world.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 21 2026 18:10 utc | 29

@ Aarsupilani | Apr 21 2026 18:06 utc | 28
 
is this the video?? 
 
Strategic Defeat: Iran & Russia Destroying Western Hegemony | Col. Jacques Baud

Posted by: james | Apr 21 2026 18:12 utc | 31

@ Exile | Apr 21 2026 18:10 utc | 30
 
sure… i don’t like walking on roadways with my dog… i go straight to the bushes and avoid any of that… my dog is off leash….. it’s not far…. maybe i ought to get an electric bike with a basket to appease the environmental nazis, lol… 

Posted by: james | Apr 21 2026 18:13 utc | 33

James,
 
you  live on a busy  roadwsy  ?  You can’t wslk to the Place with the bushes ?
signef – confusrd

Posted by: Exile | Apr 21 2026 18:17 utc | 35

@ James 31
yes it is. 

Posted by: Aarsupilani | Apr 21 2026 18:19 utc | 37

US 3-MO

3,689

US 10-YR

4,303

 
De-dollarization brings Peace in 2027

Posted by: Exile | Apr 21 2026 18:22 utc | 39

I hope Iran has allready  assembled dozens of nucular devises  in mainland america.
To be sure, why would’nt they.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 21 2026 18:25 utc | 41

I hope Iran has allready  assembled dozens of nucular devises  in mainland america.To be sure, why would’nt they.
 
Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 21 2026 18:25 utc | 41

 
Well, there’s this fatwa against nuclear weapons, for starters. 

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 21 2026 18:28 utc | 43

The continuing Israel nuclear weapon talk(and it is not clear they actually have them, and if they do they’d have to get the codes from the US to use them).  Reminds me of an old game, came in a floppy disk of 50-100 for a few dollars ordered from a catalog many decades ago.  It was a strategy game, you played as Israel.  I was young enough, did not know what nukes really were then, but you could get away with one, or two, and then the game would end giving a speech from the front lines, which was basically saying ah well world is done, good fight, we are all about to die.  Would not mind coming across it again to use as a reference, but it was 40 years ago, on a 5.25 floppy disk.  I could have it and a drive in a box somewhere, but that either would work now probably not.I’d played that game before seeing “WarGames” but like that movie, the only way to win, is to not play.  While that old game, and to date it, it was CGA graphics.  To win the game, made peace with everyone.  Going aggressive(which Israel has done hardcore), that would be a loss.It would be better if we completely dropped nukes from the conversation, it is an everyone loses scenario, and it’s known to be such.  Even before watching Wargames, as a person in single digits of age learned that.  Back then, it was getting a ride to the library, where I learned what nukes were, I am still why were any ever made?There are many Dr Strangelove memes going around, with Trump riding the bomb, that movie ends with Russia(still the USSR at the time) well we were going to announce our automated response, but you nuked us before we could, and it ends mushroom clouds everywhere.  There is no win situation using nukes, so best to think of other paths.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Apr 21 2026 18:31 utc | 45

On nuclear deterrence from the last thread. 
US created the nuclear bomb, set aside some Japanese cities to demonstrate them on then when two bombs were ready, the Americans nuked two of the three there had spared from firestorms to demonstrate American greatness.
 
The nuclear genie was out of the bottle and it can never be put back in.  The Brits and Americans then made plans to nuke the Soviet union. For that the needed many bombs, at least one for every city. Then in 1949, the Soviet union detonated its own test nuclear bomb. Initial Anglo plans for the nuking of a non nuclear Soviet Union were called off. Deterance.
 
The genie is out of the bottle. To defend against the Anglo Empire, nukes provide the only deterrence. They don’t need to be used, unless of course the US does conduct a nuclear strike, just being there has proven a deterrence to US direct attacks on a country.
 
To go up against the US without that deterrence is like taking a knife to a gunfight. What internal restraining factors there are in the US is hard to tell. Their economy is on life support and US is desperate. All fig leaves of democracy, international law, human rights – it all been dumped and the naked emperor is going for broke.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 21 2026 18:32 utc | 47

b – thank you for referring to my comment on the Vietnam War.  I really appreciate you dedication to educated debate on this site.
 
I also stated that without a strategic move by US and ARVN forces, that it was not possible for the US and ARVN forces to prevail.
 
The only real strategic move that was really available was to extend the existing DMZ westward to the Mekong River, and expand the existing DMZ to at least two miles in width.  If that DMZ extension was constructed using D9 Armored bulldozers with Rome blades, heavily mined, laced with concertina wire, and patrolled by ground troops and attack helos, then a defense line could have been established and maintained.
 
This extended DMZ would have cut the myriad Ho Chi Minh trail branches, and choked off NVA and VC supply corridors.  No supplies no war, unless the NVA liked consuming bamboo leafs.
 
The Mekong River would have the natural west and south defense line patrolled by river gunboats (like the type Senator John Kerry served on) and by attack helos too.
 
Continuously bombing the various Ho Chi Minh trails was akin to bailing water out of the ocean, it was not going to work – ever.
 
The DMZ plan had a fair chance of working, but constructing it over rough terrain would have been a challenge.  
 
Additional measures, such as the destruction of NV-China rail link bridges, and the reduction of the Port of Haiphong would have also been helpful.  Unfortunately, the gradualism approach of LBJ failed miserably, and the end result was millions of deaths of ROV citizens, mainly Catholics and Buddists.
 
Thank you for listening to my approach to this issue……TC

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 21 2026 18:34 utc | 49

@48
The US would get nuked in retaliation. That is what prevented the US from using nukes against Vietnam also.

Posted by: p3t3r | Apr 21 2026 18:37 utc | 51

49 – sorry for the typo, that is ‘your dedication to educated debate’

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 21 2026 18:40 utc | 53

I know it is thank less to moderate this, though, thank you mods!
 

Posted by: E | Apr 21 2026 18:43 utc | 55

The big difference I can see between Iran and Vietnam, is that the Viet Cong was seething with indoctrinal hatred for the west. This created a lot of attritional brutality not unlike the Korean War. Frightening, frightening stuff. And incredibly demoralizing for G.I.s losing their friends on patrols. I could only imagine. 
 
Iran and Persia generally want reproachment with the west but on favorable terms. I thank God that they are not consumed with ideological hatred but rather with an eye towards peace yet with a resolve that is just as deadly as the Viet Cong.
 
Like Putin’s Russia, Iran does all it can to frustrate the efforts of the warmongerers in the west that need a seething Iran so we can take this to our own people and say, “You see now what Barbarians we are dealing with.”
 
Russia and Iran are civilization. And they are proving you do not need to debase yourself with blind hatred towards your combatant. Indeed, that is what the west needs. 

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 21 2026 18:47 utc | 57

Malenkov @43
Iranian nukes conceled within america, would be a nucular deterent to america useing there’s.
 
Surely thats a good thing, particuly at this stage.
 
I’d love to see them yanks panic, that would be a bonus on top of the world peace thus created.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 21 2026 18:48 utc | 59

Vietnam era Kissinger and Nixon Madman Theory in Practice by Trump
 

President Trump reportedly adopted a strategy of intentionally acting unstable and insulting towards Iran, in the hopes that it would push the U.S. adversary to negotiate an end to the war.
 
The unorthodox tactics were reportedly behind a string of controversial posts the president made this month about the vital Strait of Hormuz, administration officials told The Wall Street Journal.
 
In one post, on April 5, the president ordered Iran to “open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy b*******, or you’ll be living in Hell,” and ended the post with “Praise be to Allah.”
 
In another message, this one on April 7, the president threatened that a “whole civilization will die tonight” unless Iran agreed to open the strait.
 
When an adviser asked the president about his unusual messages, Trump reportedly said he came up with the idea to praise Allah himself in a bid to seem off-filter and offensive, a type of language he thought the Iranians would respond to, administration officials told the paper.
 
The president later inquired about how the gambit was “playing,” the Journal reports.
 
Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly told people privately that the president’s language might actually bring the Iranians to negotiate, according to the Journal.
 
Some of the posts were made without knowledge of the national security team, nor were they part of a national security plan, an administration official reportedly said.

 
Either the administration staffs tried to savage some reputation from the unhinged POTUS or believing that the POTUS is not truly insane and playing the Madman Theory

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 21 2026 18:50 utc | 61

Dump has never fought anything. Nepobaby has paid others to fight any fights for him. When offered a chance to involuntarily fight, he schlepped. I do not blame anyone for dodging that draft by any means necessary, not Dump, not Springstein, Morrison, not Nugent, not anyone, no matter how loathsome the motive or how hypocritical the follow through. But no, he is not re-fighting anything, silly. For that, he would have to know how to fight. He knows how to manipulate and how to bully, and how to rape. That is all that he knows.

Posted by: Socko | Apr 21 2026 18:51 utc | 63

Nuking the Zionist by: EoinW | Apr 21 2026 17:41 utc | 15
However if Zionists are running everything then you know that nuking Iran is inevitable.
 
<=If NK, Pakistan, Russia or Iran were to respond to a nuclear attack by the Zionist on Iran, something many speculate might happen; where would the responding NPKI nuke be aimed? 
 
Iran is a physical, immovable, easily identified place, while Zionism is widely distributed, often hidden, global ideology? 
 
 

Posted by: snake | Apr 21 2026 18:52 utc | 65

Vietnam! Not again – I’ll take a break ….

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 21 2026 18:54 utc | 67

Trump’s fantasy is probably inspired by Sylvester Stallone’s words in the second Rambo movie before he returns to Vietnam to rescue American POWs:
“Do we get to win this time?”
Of course, in Hollywood the hero always wins, and can even rewrite history.

Posted by: Brendan | Apr 21 2026 18:54 utc | 69

@paddy | Apr 21 2026 18:50 utc | 63

US entered Cambodia in April 1970.

And caused the tragedy of the Khmer Rouge, who wanted to beat their traditional enemies the Vietnamese and take over Cambodia before the Vietnamese took over Vietnam. So the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975 a couple of months before the Americans left Saigon. Millions died until Vietnam entered Cambodia in 1979 and ended the Khmer Rouge rule of terror.

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 21 2026 19:02 utc | 71

Malenkov @43Iranian nukes conceled within america, would be a nucular deterent to america useing there’s. Surely thats a good thing, particuly at this stage. I’d love to see them yanks panic, that would be a bonus on top of the world peace thus created.
Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 21 2026 18:48 utc | 60

 
(*sigh*) Once again you ignore the fatwa. I should also add that not fighting dirty, not committing terrorist acts, is an Iranian point of honor.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 21 2026 19:03 utc | 73

Malenkov @ 74
Self defence is not… repeat, not.
Terrorism.
 
Double sigh.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 21 2026 19:06 utc | 75

@Norwegian | Apr 21 2026 19:02 utc | 72
Wasnt part of the story that the US bombing of Laos produced human remains so the heaps of sculls attributed to Khmer rouge’s massmurder were actually victims of US secret war in Laos?

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 21 2026 19:09 utc | 77

I accidentally put the USA in the won category it should be in the Lost one

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 21 2026 19:11 utc | 79

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 21 2026 18:48 utc | 60
 
Apparently, the big lie about Iranian “sleeper cells” in the United States and “bomb vests” is widely repeated and disseminated on MoA.
 
Except that no one can provide a historical source of Iran’s use of terrorism since 1979.
 
However, the country has been targeted by “Islamic terrorism,” or what is presented as such, on several occasions and in a bloody manner.
 
This infamous “Islamism,” which, strangely enough, has never attacked Israel’s interests but has instead relentlessly targeted Iran, the main supporter of Sunni resistance movements and the Palestinians.
 
Some people really need to wake up.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 21 2026 19:14 utc | 81

There is a very curious parallel building up between the Vietnam war and the Iranian one. Patricia Marins (Brazilian expert) suggests that Iran is trying to change the form of the war into a ground based one. ie. Possibly the only thing to stop the US will be the sight  of many coffins returning in aircraft (as long as they still have fuel). The Vietnam war “finished” when it became known about due to the quantity of body bags, as well as the breakdown of the US forces (Fragging, drugs etc).
 
Possibly the attack on Isfahan and the loss of US aircraft and assets (there may have been quite a lot of casualties), observed objectively, shows that a well entrenched and numerous army, even if many are local Balsij, will stop any modern army as the arms used are nearly equal. Quantity has a quality all of it’s own. (Mao Tzu quote?)
 Posts showing the use of pink sprays on missiles and machine guns by girls is almost up to the “Hitchhikers guide” standards.
 
So rather than a ground attack from Iraq (west), combined with a landing in Balochistan (east) being a Tump “genius” move, it might end up being the very thing that brings ultimate defeat. Interesting perspective.

Posted by: Stonebird | Apr 21 2026 19:17 utc | 83

The Vietnam war doesn’t end right after the Americans left. Vietnam also went to war against the Khmer Rouge and 1979 Border War with China.
 
I believe even if the Americans left the Middle East. Similar thing would happen. The regional players would still fighting for the following decades to fill in the Power Vacuum that the USA left behind until everything stabilized.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 21 2026 19:18 utc | 85

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 21 2026 18:34 utc | 49

Let me guess, it was those damn hippies. And the media, and stuff.
This bullshit is what the US told itself rather than learn a single fucking lesson from Vietnam, which was lost before it fucking started and should also have served as a stark warning about the dangers of incremental escalation and a lack of clear victory conditions. Sound familiar?

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Apr 21 2026 19:19 utc | 87

@75 Peter
 
I think with my point I was trying to say that Iran had not as of yet exhibited the kind of tactics that made the Viet Cong such a terror in the mind of the G.I.. 
 
If you think about it, to be able to brutalize another human being to such an extent that the Empire regularly exhibits (“They hate us for our freedom”) or that the Viet Cong did with terror, torture, and assassinations, and that the G.I.s surely also employed by indiscrimately torching/killing suspected collaborators or dropping napalm, you have to have an ideological programming that underpins this willingness to engage in horrific acts.
 
The Iranians know who they are. They are not divided politically or ideologically. They are Persians and do not believe that Capitalism or Communism will save them. They believe in themselves as a historical people.
 
Thems the facts. 

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 21 2026 19:22 utc | 89

Well said Doctor Eleven @  89.
It’s not that i dislike americans,  it’s that i dislike ‘excepionalism’
 
‘Do unto others’ and all that.
Respect.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 21 2026 19:25 utc | 91

I wish that people would stop thinking that all “nuclear” weapons have the same force if used. Some of the test by the Russians as well as the US were massive.
 
However, It is said that Saudi Arabia used a tactical nuke on Sanaa in Yemen way back in 1915. Don’t know if true but…..
Nuke based bombs could have been used in the First Iraqi war, (Photos) even if most of the residual radiation came from the use of Depleted Uranium in the shells. (DU in Fallujah).
…. and then there is Beirut not so long ago, where the explosion had a cylindrical shock wave from a “set of  bags in a lomg warehouse”. (OK the last is my own opinion as to the cause).

Posted by: Stonebird | Apr 21 2026 19:29 utc | 93

rk | Apr 21 2026 19:29 utc | 94
 
Maybe the original request, but they now use it as a visual identification. ie. on Jeeps, guns carried by individuals, missiles (again on jeeps). Very fetching.

Posted by: Stonebird | Apr 21 2026 19:32 utc | 95

Yes i agree but…   it’s  a shame the izzy’s and the people who voted trump in (twice), dont share our senseativtes when it comes to palistien, so no.
Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 21 2026 19:01 utc | 71
 
I agree, this is the problem the world now faces.  The Americans and Israelis are barbarians.  Nazis With Nukes.  How long can Iran, Russia and China afford to take the high road when fighting such an enemy?  In the case of the latter two, the high road still means not fighting them at all…which I do not think is a wise strategy.
 
The Sleeper Cell idea requires the assumption that Iran is a terrorist nation which would spend resources to create such cells decades in advance of any conflict.  There is no evidence Iran thinks this way.  Growing up we heard about Soviet sleeper cells, which turned out to be nothing more than Hollywood fantasy as well.
 
One thing Americans and Jews have in common is that they love to see themselves as victims, or potential victims.  Pure souls surrounded by evil enemies.  The entire sleeper cell idea fits perfectly with their eternal victimhood notions.  Exceptionalism at its immature worst.
 
Nevertheless many here share the wish that the USA will receive the blowback it deserves.  Rather than foreigners blowing things up, we would prefer to see the country, and its closest allies, suffer an economic collapse which renders it impotent.

Posted by: EoinW | Apr 21 2026 19:35 utc | 97

Vietnam war Trivials.
 
I saw a lot of photos of captured weapon caches in Vietnam. The Vietcong were wild with so many ww1 and ww2 weapons from dozen of nations. Sten gun, MG34, Thompson SMG, SKS, Kar98k, C96 pistol, M1 Garand, MAT49, Bren gun, Arisaka, etc. 
 
Also, Mao proposed to send combat troops into Vietnam but the Vietnamese refused and when asked why the General Giap said “We can pay back the borrowed ammos, weapons but we cannot pay back the Blood Debt”
 
Vietnamese Ground army doctrine is the closest military in the world to China. Chinese advisors helped to build the Vietnamese army and the Vietnamese assessment that Chinese military was better and suitable to the Vietnamese local conditions better than the Soviet. This is why Vietnam have 3 – 3 system, a decentralized nature, improvising and guerilla light infantry centric army.
 
Some Vietnamese Veteran told me that North Vietnam built a pipeline using bamboo and dozen of pumps to deliver gasoline to South Vietnam Units. They even built 2 decoy pipelines to check for internal traitors, spies and to deceive the American bombers.
 
Cu Chi tunnel museum is a Tourist area nowadays. If anyone wants to learn a little bit about tunnel warfare. You can check that out.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 21 2026 19:41 utc | 99