why didnt the army just pump an odorless, colorless/smokeless,

>>35008718
cuz chemical warefare is illegal?
would be super effective tho

>>35008738
you know what should be illegal? those tunnel systems and making the worst traps in the fucking world

where do you even define chemical
napalm is a chemical
lead is a chemical

>>35008718
Fun fact, that's basically what flamethrowers do with Carbon Monoxide. I recommend forgotten weapons videos on the m2.

Because they had water traps for this very reason.

>>35008718
Why didn't they just drop a bomb on Hanoi?

>>35008762
why not just burn down all the forests and then salt the earth and leave

>>35008738
>something is illegal in wars
oh poor child.

>>35008769
Let's just destroy the earth. For good.

>>35008769
Are you implying it wouldn't have worked?

>>35008793
This, if you kill everyone you win every war forever permanently. It's the ultimate victory.

Why did the american army even bother with boots on the ground?
why not make multiple passes of sprinkling shit tons of thermite and then dropping napalm

>>35008794
>This is what 13 year olds think war is, just killing the most people.

>>35008718
>gas is heavier than air
>pockets of breathable atmosphere (with VC inside) remain in the tunnels

>gas is lighter than air
>same problem + you just asphyxiated your own troops

And that's if you know the superficy of that particular tunnel system.

>>35008718
The vietnam war was stupid as fuck.

The USA was going around asia sturring up shit, and china ignored America, until America invaded China in the Korean War....

Then America awoke the sleeping dragon.

America lost just about every single battle against the chinese since America invaded china, because china had effective anti-air defense and good commanders.

American military, is start a war, figure out how to fight it once we are fighting...

>>35008821
pressure seal on tunnel entrance
multiple kinds of gas
Boom, idiot
also just pump out the air

these are stull better ideas than just blowing up the entrance

>>35008826
>America invaded China

.02 chink money has been deposited to your account

>>35008807
>build shit tons of carriers
>set up entire airforce to drop fuck loads of thermite on that vietnam
>declare war
>dust entire fucking place until it looks like mars
>drop napalm
>ignite

GG's

>>35008831
>there is only ever one entrance
Also the other guy left out that you can build gas traps to make heavier than air gas collect and give more time to escape/avoid.

Gas is not real effective or safe to use.

>>35008874
it 100% is though
and when did i say onle 1 entrance

YOU
PUT
GAS
IN
SIDE
IDOOT

>>35008718
They tried that. I wonder if they tried filling them with water though.

>>35008883
If you are using lighter than air gas or "multiple kinds of gas" and there is more than one entrance, you are risking exposure to non-targets. Not safe.

However, this is a bait thread, so carry on.

>>35008738
>>35008751
Don't forget agent Orange. The US did some pretty crafty things in the War. Like they "simulated" spirits at night through speakers to scare the Vietnamese into deserting (they were very superstitious and it had been successful).

>>35008807
Thays literally the whole tactic. The Vietcong and Vietnamese armies wouldn't attack head on. So, we b8 them with soldiers and then call airstrikes. It worked in killing them, mostly

>>35008751
>napalm is a chemical
Napalm is a flammable liquid
>lead is a chemical
Lead is a metal

>>35008718
Australian sappers near Cu Chi used to smoke out the tunnels

>>35009032
Are you one of those people that buys organics because "it has no chemicals in it"

Oh you mean exactly what they did
They had entire smoke generators and tear gas shit

One water trap and the whole idea of smoking or gassing a tunnel becomes completely fucking moot because of a nigger-rigged airlock.

>>35008751
hurrr muh indirect support to imperialism hurrrr the vietnamese totally lost that war- oh wait we got our ass handed to us and got BTFOed from a bunch of dudes with old era weaponry, Keep crying grandpa, you lost because you were the bad guys.

>>35008809
>if you kill your enemies they win

Fucking tripcucks

>>35008751
>you know what should be illegal? those tunnel systems and making the worst traps in the fucking world

Actually, there's no law against making tunnels for defensive purposes. As far as the law is concerned those tunnels are just another fortification.

>>35009782
Read a book that doesn't involve coloring inside the lines.

>>35009782
>winning by killing the entire population is okay

>>35010026
>implying its not

>>35010026
it's literally the only way to do COIN
if you kill enough of them they stop fighting
look into the Guatemalan civil war and how they managed to actually stop the commies - genocide

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>>35008718
>posts a Jedi
>advocates war crimes
Nothing less than I would expect from the ones that attacked Emperor Palpatine.

They did have equipment to pump CS into the tunnels. Wasn't always effective though.

https://youtu.be/LLFG2F35PAY?t=747

>>35008762
>What is Roaring Thunder
>What is Linebacker I
>What is Linebacker II

They dropped a bunch, and Linebacker II is what brought them to the negotiating table in '73.

>>35009688
(you)

>>35010290
>it's literally the only way to do COIN

That's literally the thinking the makes you lose COIN

Look up the Malayan Emergency for properly executed COIN.

>>35008718
Propane and propane accessories

>>35010426
>That's a clean-burning insurgency, I tell ya hwat.

>>35009688
Quite the (you) farm you have here. I'm sure you're looking forward to the harvest.

>>35008718
because "that'd be illegal, sir"

plus they already had napalm which would accomplish the same thing by suffocating them so like why bother

They actually had water traps in their tunnels like in the drain under your sink to stop exactly this.

>>35008883
The fact that you misspelled idiot amuses me greatly

>>35010581
Because unlike napalm it's odor less and colorless?
>>35009256
Except that's not what I said

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>>35009004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d9H_1ygEv8

>>35008762
>>35008762
>>35008769
>>35008807
>>35008826
Then FLOTUS wouldn't have accrued massive wealth from rubber trees in Vietnam, which was the largest motivator behind the war for the executive

>>35010347
What a relief when I heard they were purged. No more citizens disappeared with vague justifications of "Jedi business." The Republic was chained to that violent little cult for too long.

>>35010347
I assumed it was some kind of joke about how the space-japs tried to gas those two jedi at the start of the ep1.

Yeah, let's drive an industrial vacuum pumping truck through a swamp up the side of a mountain and through a thick dense jungle and put a hose down into a tunnel of a highly defended position

Do you think about thoughts before they leave your head

>>35010859
You must be fun at parties

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>>35010869
I am. But I go to different parties than you for a reason that should be obvious.

>>35010897
don't wipe your fucking cheeto dust covered fingers on that rental suit anon

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>>35008718
>water barriers were often used to protect tunnels from gas
Not that the gas would spread properly either.

>>35008718
Master! Dioxis!

>>35009032
Do you even know what a chemical is? Only a retard would describe substances using a blanket term like "chemicals".

>>35008762

Others previously said we did drop bombs on Hanoi in Linebacker I and II but if you're referring to Nukes? Then it was the fear of accidentally bringing the Soviets into the war, more so than they were, on the side of North Vietnam which would have been much more difficult to deal with. Since there was the idea that the Soviets were at their radar installations, air bases and so forth training the Vietnamese.

>>35008809
This. US should have been focusing on the Ho Chi Minh trail and hatefucking infrastructure in Hanoi and Haiphong.

Bruh, just invade Laos and extend the DMZ all the way from the 17th parallel to the Chinese border.

Boom, problem solved.

>>35010424
>Malayan Emergency
This, and I would like to add the Kenyan Emergency.

British were good at COIN. I suppose 2 centuries of colonialism helps with that.

>>35008850
>>dust entire fucking place until it looks like mars
>>drop napalm
holy fuck i kekt, i may be an edgy teen but goddamn this would have worked.

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>>35008826
xDDDDDDD

>>35010659
carbon monoxide is both of those. also not exactly like you can leave your hidey-hole to grab a breath of fresh air while strolling around through the flaming jungle...

>>35012364
The Rhodesian Bush war would be another good example, albeit not legally British citizens at that point.

>>35012401
is that tommy wiseau?

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>>35012490
Didn't they kinda lose though?

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>>35008850
>if only

>>35008809
success was judged by killcounts in the vietnam war

>>35013836
The only lost because the west blockaded rhodesia and helped the commies win. There was a steady flow of chinese and russian supplied terrorists flooding across the border and eventually the rhodesians ran out of resources. Rhodesians practically invented modern COIN tactics.

Fighting an insurgency in your own country while under a worldwide blockade is way different from fighting a colonial war off in bumfuck asia.

>>35010020
>Read
Rich coming from a tripfag

>>35010897
N E C K B E A R D
L O C A T E D

>>35008738
>Chemical warfare is illegal
>While the US engaged in massive defoilant usage
>Pic related on birth defects

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