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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (223922)3/13/2007 11:28:34 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"An American military unit larger than a platoon was never defeated by the NVA or Viet Cong in Vietnam.

This statement by itself is factually incorrect in that one must include air power in the equation. If the average military unit larger than a platoon had operated without air power during the war we would have lost a good deal of them, and our deaths would have greatly exceeded 50K+

I'm sure it is an arcanely nuanced point according to some....
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