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58.000 americans died ,after Tokin incident that never happend. create an unwinnable war, globalist bankers invested and made money from both sides. Rules of
by mrle 10y ago
58.000 americans died ,after Tokin incident that never happend.
create an unwinnable war, globalist bankers invested and made money from both sides.
Rules of engagement not to win a war:
U.S. aircraft were prohibited from attacking North Vietnamese
airfields, even in hot pursuit of North Vietnamese aircraft;
-- "Extreme caution" was to be exercised in conducting air strikes so as
not to endanger foreign shipping; in the Haiphong area, "every feasible
precaution" was to be taken in conducting air strikes, including SAM
suppression, to avoid endangering foreign shipping and to minimize civilian
casualties and collateral damage
-- Attacks on populated areas, locks and dams, and hydroelectric plants were prohibited;
-- A thirty mile restricted area around Hanoi, with a ten mile prohibited
area, and a ten mile restricted area around Haiphong;
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a283132.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a283132.pdf
When Rolling Thunder began,
North Vietnam’s air defense system did not amount to much and could have been destroyed easily.
US policy, however, gave the North Vietnamese the time, free from attack, to
build a formidable air defense.
The system consisted of anti-aircraft
artillery, SA-2 surface-to-air missiles, MiG fighters, and radars, all of
Soviet design, some supplied by the Soviet Union and some by China.
The first SAM site in North Vietnam
was detected April 5, 1965, but
US airmen were not permitted to
strike it.
http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Documents/2005/March%202005/0305thunder.pdf http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Documents/2005/Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Lavelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Lavelle
"In 1965, we observed the construction of the first surface-to-air (SAM) sites in North Vietnam, and the military sought permission to attack them before they were completed to save American casualties. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs John McNaughton ridiculed the idea. "We won't bomb the SAM sites, which signals to North Vietnam not to use them."
- Synaesthesia 10y agoThe real war was against South Vietnam, against the NLF, later only the north and then the whole region - Laos and Cambodia too. Millions died, not just 58000 troops.
- mrle 10y agovietnam war was started with fake Tonkin incident, planned to continue for as long as possible, globalist bankers invested in Soviet Union, China weapon industry, and US weapon industry to make money from both sides, USA lost vietnamwar not because they were defeated in vietnam, but because of Watergate Scandal, mass-protests in US etc, the war on terror, 9/11, Middle East war are the same, starting it with false flags, and let it continue to make money, selling weapons, get cheap oil etc.. follow the money and find out, worldwar 1 and 2 are no different.
- 3131s 10y agoA statistic that is almost unreal -- there are still an estimated 80 million unexploded US bombs in Laos. What a deep, deep atrocity. Cambodia got it almost as badly. Like Laos, more tons of bombs were dropped on tiny Cambodia than were dropped by the Allied forces in the entirety of World War II. I've told this story on HN before but I talked to some Cambodian men in Kompung Thom a few months ago who said they would salvage unexploded bombs as children and sell off the valuable parts. Up until recently 1000+ people were dying every year from land mines too, which were of course supplied by the Chinese and US governments. Cambodia has more land mine victims than any other country on earth, and you see them in the streets of Phnom Penh every day. It is sick that the United States is still selling off its stockpile of land mines.