Old Blue: Some of us got fair to middling good at VN counterinsurgency. Those CAP teams were the premier example. Some Sneaky Petes were not too bad either.

When I left there for the last time (Dec 1970), the NLF had virtually ceased to exist. Yeah, the commies themselves managed to blow a good thing, but doggone it, I am gonna to claim an assist in their demise.

Ultimately, it was a highly conventional force that finally overran the RVN. In discussing the admitted shortcomings of the US military during that time, please take pains to see to it that you do not inadvertently promote the leftist myth of
a guerilla victory stemming from superior ideology.

BTW: I figure that those who fantasize about winning by turning portions of the planet into an uninhabitable wasteland actually harbor desires to see their own place destroyed. Just like Herr Schickelgruber.