Neville Johnstone
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Neville Johnstone
@Johnnyboy833
An old, progressive guy; grateful for being around
Victoria, Australia Katılım Eylül 2015
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Here is something American culture cannot process and has spent fifty years refusing to process:
Vietnam did not win because of luck.
Vietnam did not win because America made mistakes.
Vietnam did not win because of Soviet weapons or Chinese support.
Vietnam won because Vietnamese people were better at this war than Americans were.
Better strategists.
Better at understanding the terrain.
Better at sustaining morale across decades of unimaginable suffering.
Better at building an underground economy of resistance that no bombing campaign could touch.
Better at turning every American escalation into a recruitment tool.
Better at knowing what they were fighting for and why it was worth dying for.
General Võ Nguyên Giáp, who defeated both the French and the Americans, was a history teacher before he was a general.
He had no formal military training.
He studied the Vietnamese landscape, the Vietnamese people, the psychology of colonial occupiers, and he designed a strategy around all of those things.
He understood something American generals, with all their training, all their technology, all their experience, did not understand:
This war would be won by whoever could outlast the other side's will to continue.
Not firepower. Will.
And he was right.
He was right about the French.
He was right about the Americans.
The most powerful military on earth was out-thought by a history teacher from a colonized country.
That is not an accident of history.
That is not a mistake or a miscalculation.
That is what happens when you underestimate people.
When you look at a rice farmer and see someone beneath you.
When your own arrogance becomes your greatest strategic liability.
America's arrogance cost it Vietnam.
That arrogance has never been honestly examined.
It has never been corrected.
Which is why the same pattern keeps repeating in different countries with different names.

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