The Good Guys: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The US Army Could Never Invade North Vietnam Directly
When hundreds of thousands of american soldiers arrived in vietnam, they were the best, most well equipped army in the history of the world. No fighting force in any millennia could bring the same level of destructive capability to bear. With that force came an intoxicating sense of power. But all that gungho enthusiasm quickly curdled with the realization that this was an army built for the wrong war.
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