Originally Posted by
GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU
Had they been around our Malaya/Indonesia operations, I think we may have heard the same complaint.
To a point you may be right however in the Basra case we had insufficient resources to execute the Malaya system.
In the Indonesian case, which ended as the Vietnam campaign ramped up, I think there was the same thoughts that we would have done it differently.
I have said it before but, IMHO, since the civil war the US has placed a far greater store on preservation of its men through technical superiority. As patton said, 'make the other dumb bitch die for his country.'