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Uncle Ho was prepared to throw any number of people under the bus for a unified Vietnam. Case in point: they had a policy of regularly making battalion streng
by hga 11y ago
Uncle Ho was prepared to throw any number of people under the bus for a unified Vietnam.
Case in point: they had a policy of regularly making battalion strength night attacks on our fixed positions, deliberately sacrificing about a company's worth of men. It worked because it made our commanders unreasonably afraid of venturing outside at night.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoIt's still hard to come to grips with even just as an exercise. We had similar difficulties in the Pacific in WWII with the Bushido Code. The reaction there was, shall we say, less restrained. Grim business, founded in a vehement racism as a central operating principle.