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Subject: Best Infantry : The Viet Cong?
GreyJackal    10/29/2006 8:59:06 AM
I saw this documentary on the History channel where they said during hard times in the Vietnam War, Viet cong were able to march upto 30 miles a day on one meal(usually a bowl of rice). They also were known to be very effective in mannually clearing out roads through jungles, dig lots of underground tunnels many over 50 miles long. They also pulled heavy artillery up difficult mountains mannually. It seems that these guys were very dedicated, obedient and durable infantry. Could they be the best infantry ever?
 
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Ehran       4/29/2007 3:59:39 PM
Horses that win 100 mile endurance races in one day don't go 100 miles day after day.

read about a race tween a camel and thoroughbred horse from somewhere to new york a distance of 100 miles.  the horse won barely and keeled over and died at the finish line.  the camel went back the next day to the start line.

they may look stoopid but camels just keep on going.
 
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dirtykraut       5/5/2007 12:21:53 PM

Horses that win 100 mile endurance races in one day don't go 100 miles day after day.

read about a race tween a camel and thoroughbred horse from somewhere to new york a distance of 100 miles.  the horse won barely and keeled over and died at the finish line.  the camel went back the next day to the start line.

they may look stoopid but camels just keep on going.


The Vietcong and NVA kept going because they had no choice. Their leaders were aware that the US would never invade the North, and exploited that. The Vietcong and NVA soldeir was simply a man in the field trying to earn his bowl of rice. It is similar to the situation in Iraq. Many of the Iraqis that place roadside bombs do not do so because of a political agenda, they do so because they want to feed their families. These are not brave, determined people for the most part. They are people who want to eat, and people who want to feed their kids.
 
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harry haller    I Agree   5/11/2009 11:38:19 PM
I believe people are geting off track, comparing comanche, apache, cavalry, modern infantry, and all the like. The true question is, given what they were, were the VC the best infantry ever in relation to their circumstances.
 
The US military may be able to fire large weapons, and the appaches may have fought well on foot, but compared to the VC, nothing even comes close to endurance and effectiveness outside the battlefield. The Viet Cong were, prior to the Tet Offensive, South Vietnamese citizens, armed, trained, and led by northern commisars, attempting to expell one of the worlds superpowers with no near end in sight. Seeing as the general plan of the north vietnamese was to fight an extended confict, bleeding the US for anywhere from 10 to 30 years, any volunteer (all of the VC were highly motivated volunteers) had to have serious motivation. Any soldier willing to fight for up to thirty years in humid, sweaty mountains in the mud against the US war machine with minimal material earns my admiration completely, but anybody able to suceed in that task after some of the horrors they had to go through for their homeland is definatly outstanding.
 
I must say, the Viet Cong, in digging their tunnels, climbing those Vietnamese hillsides, and fighting those American "imperialists" most definatly secured their position in my heart as the most compairativly excelent infantry ever.
 
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hercules       7/21/2009 6:28:14 PM
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