Fighting a war with one hand tied behind their backs. How they maintained their sanity is beyond me. "We stand on the backs of giants" No exception with those who served in Vietnam. Tragic for everyone involved.
It still happens today. In 2010 I was in theater when the use of CAS aircraft became restricted unless the PILOTS could positively identify ground targets. Ground commanders couldn't reference buildings, portions of the ground, etc for fires. The PILOTS had to be able to see the targets. How a USAF pilot in an A-10 could see a person shooting at us from inside a building, while they're at 1000 feet doing 200 knots is beyond me.
rules of engagement did not prevent numerous atrocities check out KILL ANYTHING THAT MOVES rules of engagement is always overstated by Vietnam apologists
@@war_gamer in the video you seem to suggest that you believe the rules of engagement somehow lost the war for the Americans and they would have won otherwise - my point is the rules if followed did not lose the war for Americans but even more importantly the rules were repeatedly not followed and they still lose the war - also they were not "silly" they had a purpose - even in Afghanistan there were "silly" rules can you say the Americans lost that war?
nope the ROE prevented them from engaging targets at most opportune times. I cant comment on if that would win a war. But for these pilots it changed teh risk profile and made missions harder and ultimately reduced teh effectiveness. There is a cool documentary on the THUD boys on Amazon.
@@war_gamer 1. the rules of engagement were put in TO WIN THE WAR and not just in Vietnam i2. the rules of engagement were repeatedly broken anyway in Vietnam --- do some research with unbiased sources
Fighting a war with one hand tied behind their backs. How they maintained their sanity is beyond me.
"We stand on the backs of giants"
No exception with those who served in Vietnam. Tragic for everyone involved.
Thanks for watching and spot on comment!
It still happens today. In 2010 I was in theater when the use of CAS aircraft became restricted unless the PILOTS could positively identify ground targets. Ground commanders couldn't reference buildings, portions of the ground, etc for fires. The PILOTS had to be able to see the targets.
How a USAF pilot in an A-10 could see a person shooting at us from inside a building, while they're at 1000 feet doing 200 knots is beyond me.
rules of engagement did not prevent numerous atrocities check out KILL ANYTHING THAT MOVES rules of engagement is always overstated by Vietnam apologists
ok.. what does this have to do with the video at hand?
@@war_gamer in the video you seem to suggest that you believe the rules of engagement somehow lost the war for the Americans and they would have won otherwise - my point is the rules if followed did not lose the war for Americans but even more importantly the rules were repeatedly not followed and they still lose the war - also they were not "silly" they had a purpose - even in Afghanistan there were "silly" rules can you say the Americans lost that war?
nope the ROE prevented them from engaging targets at most opportune times. I cant comment on if that would win a war. But for these pilots it changed teh risk profile and made missions harder and ultimately reduced teh effectiveness. There is a cool documentary on the THUD boys on Amazon.
@@war_gamer you need to educate yourself the rules of engagement were violated in Vietnam repeatedly
@@war_gamer 1. the rules of engagement were put in TO WIN THE WAR and not just in Vietnam i2. the rules of engagement were repeatedly broken anyway in Vietnam --- do some research with unbiased sources
Thanks for the vid. I've never played a DVG game. Has anyone made a board game on chopper pilots in Vietnam?
Huey Leader is the next game in the Leader series! Will be Kickstarting this summer!
@@saraheandi2638 Great! I'll be looking forward to that one!
lotsa good stuff mate
Nice game but I will never understand why DVG dont use historical photos of the planes, those drawings are horrible :- \
clip art?