Will everybody stop talking about Vietnam? Vietnam was a guerrilla war. Guerrilla wars aren't fought by the same set of rules as conventional wars. Therefore, the outcome of the Vietnam War is irrelevant.
AMBOMB, you're starting to really waste our time.
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Will everybody stop talking about Vietnam? Vietnam was a guerrilla war. Guerrilla wars aren't fought by the same set of rules as conventional wars. Therefore, the outcome of the Vietnam War is irrelevant.
Will everybody stop talking about Vietnam? Vietnam was a guerrilla war. Guerrilla wars aren't fought by the same set of rules as conventional wars. Therefore, the outcome of the Vietnam War is irrelevant.
It doesn't matter. War is war. Name one single war where airpower alone won the war. There is none, none in the 90 or so years that planes have graced our skies have they won a war without troops. Planes can't hold territory.
Well, Kosovo War in 1999 was practically an air war (KLA operations had just nuisance value), although there was the threat of a ground operation. It was also perhaps most amazingly one-sided war ever, with Allied forces seeing two deaths in accident (or was it accident?) and three soldiers taken POW. But this was a case of extremes. I would estimate that 3/4 of the world's air power (US forces and major NATO nations) were taking part in the operations with Serbia alone. Serbia also didn't have 1999 level IADS available.
3/4 of the World's Air Power to deal with the relativly minor Kosovo War?
And at a tactical level, all that bombing didn't work. Most of the Serb army in Kosovo survived.
It took attacks on "strategic targets" and population centers to force the Serbs to capitulate.
64th fighter corps would be bigger.The United States used fewer than 100 B-29's and no B-36's or B-47's
in the Korean War. If we had used more bombers, we would've won.
Yup, although one must remember that Serbian Army did not get hammered due to fact that it took hiding. If there had been major movements they would have been mostly likely hammered. But this was with help of UAV's, SAR's, thermal imagers, LGB's, JDAM's and other acronyms which did not exist during the Korean War when one of the most sophisticated night vision devices was to keep the observer in a very dark room for a day before the mission in order to get him used to darkness...
If the Serb Army was hiding, who was rounding up the Albanians and dumping them over the border?
Rounding up civilians and dumping them over the border did not require use of large military units or even specialized military vehicles (tanks, APC's, artillery etc) which could have been more easily identified. Many of these units used normal SUV's or pick-up trucks and were just platoon sized or smaller.