this series is actually amazing . I love the music too i sometimes put this on if i cant get to sleep lol but if you watch it properly like i have about 5 times then you'd find its the most descriptive and informative Vietnam war doc you'll ever see
When I play it during my sleep, my dreams are somewhat guided by the narration. One moment I am being overrun by savages, and the next moment I am a hero, saving the whole corps. It's strange though, my dreams don't take place in the place and time of the film. Usually much earlier, before mechanized warfare, and in Europe. But the voice of the film still guides the dream somehow. Sometimes I attempt to argue with it in the dream, and I can't win because it's a fixed narration which can't respond to my reasoning.
Absolute embarrassment for the U.S. shameful abandoning of their allies. They still haven't lived it down 50+ years later and are repeating the same mistakes today in Afghanistan
To think my friend's grandfather David Hrdlicka was a POW near Sam Neua, Laos when the bombing was going on and he was shot down near Sam Neua, Laos May 18, 1965 but never came home nor was he released all because the war in Laos was secret and we never negotiated for the men known to have been captured by the Pathet Lao. David Hrdlicka and Charles E Shelton among them
@ 5:15 was I dreaming or was that a Canberra aircraft (I think the American designation was B-57), if I am correct I have learnt something new today, I knew the USA had bought the Canberra but didn’t know it saw action in Vietnam, if I am wrong then what aircraft is it?, it is remarkably similar. The USA would have lost a lot less crews and aircraft if they hadn’t been restricted on what targets they could attack, when they were to be attacked, what transit routes they had to follow and if, most importantly, LBJ and McNamara had let the military be the military and they stuck to politics and bean counting, I know that a lot of Vietnam veterans blame the dynamic duo for the debacle that was the Vietnam war, and as a military veteran I have to agree, politicians start wars, they don’t fight them, they don’t know the tactical situation, only what they are told, and from the battlefield reports through to the chiefs of staff the reports get sanitised, changed and subject to the biggest game of Chinese whispers, what the politicians are fed is a mere shadow of the truth, and from Vietnam onwards they would be better informed watching the television 📺 news reports.
The war was Lost the moment Vietnam was officially partitioned. Because the actual Vietnamese people saw fit that through the comunist ideology they could achieve full independent self governance in the rest of the 20th century and beyond into the future! In the Capitalist South Vietnam, their own population was ready to join their brothers in the North. No amount of persuasion would have averted the south from joining the North, and that's how it happened.
Obviously you don't know what happened, because if you did you'd know the South Vietnamese were supposed to rise up against their government during Tet, and they didn't.
This Vietnam was full of flaw, the worst was policy set on Vietnam. Our politicians are somewhat arrogant and they think splitting a country into two countries is a good idea based on ideology. For example, DPRK and Republic of Korea will never have a peace as long as a country split into 2. A truce or cease fire is not a peace. One must be defeated and One must be victorious. CIA secretly funded Khmer Rogue in order to counter Vietnam and China influence which caused millions of lives .Our own government committed war crime and crime against humanity many times.
The cause may be noble which was to restore and defend democracy but the military strategy was flawed from the start. The Americans should have hit North Vietnam first and choke the supply of material going to Vietcong in the South.
Woulda coulda shoulda. The strategy was flawed but not because of that. It was flawed was due to immense bureaucracy and red tape. It was a war where the invaders weren't even *allowed* to cross into the North. Not even *allowed* to bomb much of the North. How do you win a war where your politicians won't even allow you to quite literally attack the enemy in their territory? Not only that, the US *tried* to "choke the supply of material going south". By Sea and land. They *tried* to halt the Ho Chi Mihn trail. They bombed the shit out of Laos. Secretly bombed Cambodia. All in an effort to "choke the supply of material going south". What "they should have done" was quite literally the doctrine for much of the war. The reality is much, much more complicated than you are making it seem. It was a war of bureaucracy, and China.
Glory to the Vietnamese people for defending their country from pure evil. US was and still is empire of evil. For them millions of dead people killed by US army around the globe means nothing. This series should be mandatory in schools.
Repeated points throughout the presentation as well as chronologically jumping around to random points in the War. A poor use of good war footage. I imagine the person who curated it was just as haphazard though.
The problem with America fighting wars is America irself. The enemy is never more of a problem than it's own self. America had or has no problem in killing it's own or it's ally troops. The best place to be when fighting with America is at home and even then get a bunker. They lost because they were scared to win!
Thank you for making this available, it is such a good documentary! It is a lost treasure..
this series is actually amazing . I love the music too i sometimes put this on if i cant get to sleep lol but if you watch it properly like i have about 5 times then you'd find its the most descriptive and informative Vietnam war doc you'll ever see
same here about sleep
Omg me too love listening to this series falling asleep
When I play it during my sleep, my dreams are somewhat guided by the narration. One moment I am being overrun by savages, and the next moment I am a hero, saving the whole corps. It's strange though, my dreams don't take place in the place and time of the film. Usually much earlier, before mechanized warfare, and in Europe. But the voice of the film still guides the dream somehow. Sometimes I attempt to argue with it in the dream, and I can't win because it's a fixed narration which can't respond to my reasoning.
Absolute embarrassment for the U.S. shameful abandoning of their allies.
They still haven't lived it down 50+ years later and are repeating the same mistakes today in Afghanistan
I thought the same. Who will work with USA again on such a large scale project?
Ukraine
Ukraine is the next in line.
There was Georgia, a former ussr country, that learnt the lesson in 2008 as well
@@amiralekper6399 Exactly
I love the synthesized gunfire and bomb explosions- reminds me of sounds from video games I played in college circa mid-90's.
Vietnamese were awesome. The victors are never those who can inflict the most, its those who can endure the most.
I have large hairy balls.
That's a big part of it, thats for sure.
To think my friend's grandfather David Hrdlicka was a POW near Sam Neua, Laos when the bombing was going on and he was shot down near Sam Neua, Laos May 18, 1965 but never came home nor was he released all because the war in Laos was secret and we never negotiated for the men known to have been captured by the Pathet Lao. David Hrdlicka and Charles E Shelton among them
He or his ancestors must have come from Czech Republic or Slovakia, the name is definitely from Czech language
Yes
The Vietnamese people never give up
Vietnamese alway
Yah. And they had a TON of help from China and Russia.
@@r.a.9406 Plus Cuba and North Korea
The South Vietnamese gave up after North Vietnamese Communists took Saigon.
American should had been listened to Mc Namara's advice... This man has a good grasp of strategy and could see very big pictured
Yes i promise :)
As well as JFK's
@ 5:15 was I dreaming or was that a Canberra aircraft (I think the American designation was B-57), if I am correct I have learnt something new today, I knew the USA had bought the Canberra but didn’t know it saw action in Vietnam, if I am wrong then what aircraft is it?, it is remarkably similar. The USA would have lost a lot less crews and aircraft if they hadn’t been restricted on what targets they could attack, when they were to be attacked, what transit routes they had to follow and if, most importantly, LBJ and McNamara had let the military be the military and they stuck to politics and bean counting, I know that a lot of Vietnam veterans blame the dynamic duo for the debacle that was the Vietnam war, and as a military veteran I have to agree, politicians start wars, they don’t fight them, they don’t know the tactical situation, only what they are told, and from the battlefield reports through to the chiefs of staff the reports get sanitised, changed and subject to the biggest game of Chinese whispers, what the politicians are fed is a mere shadow of the truth, and from Vietnam onwards they would be better informed watching the television 📺 news reports.
The war was Lost the moment Vietnam was officially partitioned.
Because the actual Vietnamese people saw fit that through the comunist ideology they could achieve full independent self governance in the rest of the 20th century and beyond into the future!
In the Capitalist South Vietnam, their own population was ready to join their brothers in the North.
No amount of persuasion would have averted the south from joining the North, and that's how it happened.
Obviously you don't know what happened, because if you did you'd know the South Vietnamese were supposed to rise up against their government during Tet, and they didn't.
This Vietnam was full of flaw, the worst was policy set on Vietnam. Our politicians are somewhat arrogant and they think splitting a country into two countries is a good idea based on ideology. For example, DPRK and Republic of Korea will never have a peace as long as a country split into 2. A truce or cease fire is not a peace. One must be defeated and One must be victorious. CIA secretly funded Khmer Rogue in order to counter Vietnam and China influence which caused millions of lives .Our own government committed war crime and crime against humanity many times.
Funny how reversing an image still doesn't stop it from being repeated in every other video.
Same old, same old clips in each of the series.
I understand your point but the vietnam war ended decades ago. What do you expect them to do, go back in time to record more footage?
The cause may be noble which was to restore and defend democracy but the military strategy was flawed from the start. The Americans should have hit North Vietnam first and choke the supply of material going to Vietcong in the South.
Woulda coulda shoulda.
The strategy was flawed but not because of that. It was flawed was due to immense bureaucracy and red tape. It was a war where the invaders weren't even *allowed* to cross into the North. Not even *allowed* to bomb much of the North. How do you win a war where your politicians won't even allow you to quite literally attack the enemy in their territory?
Not only that, the US *tried* to "choke the supply of material going south". By Sea and land. They *tried* to halt the Ho Chi Mihn trail. They bombed the shit out of Laos. Secretly bombed Cambodia. All in an effort to "choke the supply of material going south". What "they should have done" was quite literally the doctrine for much of the war. The reality is much, much more complicated than you are making it seem.
It was a war of bureaucracy, and China.
tucker
Glory to the Vietnamese people for defending their country from pure evil. US was and still is empire of evil. For them millions of dead people killed by US army around the globe means nothing. This series should be mandatory in schools.
Had only the US broadened the war to Laos and Cambodia.
The f$$ing back ground noise make me ...........
Otherwise it is a great documentary
Repeated points throughout the presentation as well as chronologically jumping around to random points in the War. A poor use of good war footage. I imagine the person who curated it was just as haphazard though.
The problem with America fighting wars is America irself. The enemy is never more of a problem than it's own self. America had or has no problem in killing it's own or it's ally troops. The best place to be when fighting with America is at home and even then get a bunker. They lost because they were scared to win!
What are you talking about ? America has no problem killing it's own troops ? What universe are you living in