What did the US learn in Korea then apply in Vietnam? What mistakes

not to fuck with north korea

>>34848231
>What did the US learn in Korea then apply in Vietnam?
Literally nothing.

>M-16
Not really Asian landwar related.

>>34848231
There's a reason we never invaded North Vietnam.

We wanted to avoid what happened in Korea.

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>What did the US learn in Korea then apply in Vietnam?
Helicopter tactics and air assault

>What mistakes in Korea did they not learn from?
Fighting wars in Asia

>>34848243
>There's a reason we never invaded North Vietnam
There was no reason to invade Vietnam at all, like just fucking leave them alone and they would become like Taiwan or Singapore if frog didn't fuck up everything

>>34848266
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>>34848231
any sauce on OP pic?

>>34848266
>Fighting wars in asia

Not a mistake when the biggest war ever was a victory for the US.

>>34848231
Shitty ROE and irrational fear if China. Nothing was learned.

>>34848231
>What did the US learn in Korea then apply in Vietnam? What mistakes in Korea did they not learn from?
that china is the problem
that china is the problem

>>34848266
>>34849225
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmT0_hKSUrw
we could have stopped this

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>>34848239
>M-16
>Not really Asian landwar related.
so that explained why Vietnamese SPEC OP still using M16 right?

>>34849092
>Break up French and British Empires
>Complain about French and British empires no longer suppressing commie groups

American geo-politics.

>>34848231
In the 80s I always heard vets bitching about how we pulled our punches because we were afraid of China entering on the communist side.

It appears we are still afraid of China.

>>34848231
>What mistakes in Korea did they not learn from?
Interfering in a foreign civil war.

>>34851008
The issue with Vietnam is that there was no military solution that did not involve a full-scale invasion and long-term occupation of the North. The whole war was a series of increasingly delusional attempts to not deal with that fact.

>>34851008
US-China relation in the 70s was the best ever seen