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<blockquote data-quote="lasher" data-source="post: 2990009" data-attributes="member: 40522"><p>sadly hearts and minds was working in I Corps vietnam until the head cheese westmoreland decided and ordered search and destroy. the Brute, Lt General Victor Krulak wrote the USMC manual on counter insurgency and came close to forced retirement because he resisted westmoreland for a very long time. we had squads and platoons, civil action groups, in the villes providing security and training. the average vietnamese only cared about growing rice to feed his family, politics was not in their wheel house. the rice was grown in coastal areas and Krulak rightly discerned that keeping the VC and NVA away from the coastal villes would limit their ability to function in the field as they simply stole the farmers rice. so,,,instead of protecting the population we went chasing the NVA up into the mountains and highlands. the NVA, whom we called Mr Charles, was a well trained trooper and a master of the ambush, in his home terrain he held the advantage. on the coast protecting the farmers we held the advantage, westmoreland was unfit for command IMO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lasher, post: 2990009, member: 40522"] sadly hearts and minds was working in I Corps vietnam until the head cheese westmoreland decided and ordered search and destroy. the Brute, Lt General Victor Krulak wrote the USMC manual on counter insurgency and came close to forced retirement because he resisted westmoreland for a very long time. we had squads and platoons, civil action groups, in the villes providing security and training. the average vietnamese only cared about growing rice to feed his family, politics was not in their wheel house. the rice was grown in coastal areas and Krulak rightly discerned that keeping the VC and NVA away from the coastal villes would limit their ability to function in the field as they simply stole the farmers rice. so,,,instead of protecting the population we went chasing the NVA up into the mountains and highlands. the NVA, whom we called Mr Charles, was a well trained trooper and a master of the ambush, in his home terrain he held the advantage. on the coast protecting the farmers we held the advantage, westmoreland was unfit for command IMO [/QUOTE]
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