Does anyone have any insight on how China and Vietnam size up to each other militarily? Just looking online I found
I've also heard people claim the Chinese Coast Guard alone could successfully take on Vietnam's Navy, and I'd assume the PLAN is leagues ahead of Vietnam in terms of Naval power. Just how would a conflict between China and Vietnam play out? How further ahead is China in terms of military technology? Does Vietnam get any support from the US nowadays?
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Thomas Myers
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Josiah Bell
Does this shit mean anything nowadays?
James Sanchez
Care to explain why would it not?
David Williams
Because 1 guy with a tank >>>> 1000 guys with a spear.
Military expenditure is where the money's literally at.
Charles Allen
Isn't the Vietnamese defensive policy something along the lines of "1000000 guys grab an AK an go innawoods"? China might be able to waltz into the country and capital fairly easily, but even with wall to wall warcrimes and bugman sociopathy they're going to have a hell of a time (and probably a net loss) of the occupation and probably fail to integrate the conquered provinces.
Owen Young
That goes without saying, but as pointed out, Vietnamese probably has an army "more advanced" than just a few thousands of spearmen.
Arguable. If your country spends the majority of its military budget on raising a reservist force that has the task of getting together for 3-5 days every quarter a year and get drunk after the 8(?) hours of training a day and the sole purpose of propaganda, military expenditure isn't really going to worth shit…
Nathan Morris
My country is badly, badly outmatched.
The viet cong were bribed by the chinks and didn't improve their military since the 70s.
Samuel Kelly
Also, the chinks are gonna overrun/shell Hanoi in day one, so any anti-chink strategy must involve switching capital back down to Saigon.
But this is basically not okay for the viet cong.
Elijah Russell
More like some hobbit hole in the middle of fuck nowhere
Camden Ortiz
Well, Cu Chi tunnels are right next to Saigon.