* For those who don't know: Recipients of medals for valor in combat (I'm not a member of that august group) don't like it when people say they "won" the medals, because all too often some of their friends died in the engagement; the preferred usage is that someone "received" or "was awarded" the medal in question.
Is there another name for it? Besides the obvious name of whatever the "enemy" called it at the time?
I guess I was thinking that HN is a very multinational forum, and I don't know what people in other countries would call the Vietnam War.
(I'm reminded of how genteel Southern ladies supposedly used to refer to the Civil War as The Late Unpleasantness.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_Vietnam_War
> Hambleton had Top Secret access to Strategic Air Command operations and was an expert in surface-to-air missile countermeasures. The North Vietnamese Army may have possessed information about his presence in Vietnam and his capture would have meant a huge intelligence bonanza for the Soviet Union.
I'd mostly agree with the russian opinion (from what I've seen), but i certaily haven't seen it regarding the Ukranians. r/combatfootage r/ukkranianwarvideoreport etc.. Quite the opposite. I'd guess being trained by the us and uk has had an effect. As an aside, whenever ukraine forces pass, they always wave to each other.
While I am no expert on these things, a few of the videos / articles / images I've seen of Russians fighters in Ukraine lead me to believe they don't feel this similar level of support from their armed forces, which could be contributing adversely to the outcome (from their perspective).