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Re:Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr ... by dba7dba on Thursday January 31, 2019 @02:53PM (#19048143)
Think you got mixed up a bit there.

Ken Burns Vietnam documentary series was about Vietnam (1960s - 1975 ?), not the Korean War (1950 - 1953), no?

The 320,000 South Korean troops who rotated through the Vietnam War over 10+ year period were great troops according to many US veterans who were there.

And also I do not agree with the broad generalization that South Vietnamese troops were hopeless.

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Re:Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr ... by jandrese on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:09AM (#19055289)
Yes, South Vietnamese. Specifically the SVA. It seemed pretty clear that the morale was poor and the leadership was corrupt and/or incompetent. The idea that they would be able to invade, capture, and hold Hanoi without direct US help seems implausible at best.
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