last big win> March 16, 1968 wrote:
A bunch of short rice farmers beat the US Military four decades ago nothing has changed. The US military has not "WON" a war since 1946 and then it wasn't just them they basically had the whole world helping them do it.
That's not true. The US military whopped Grenada (population 91,000) in 1983 with just 8,000 troops/Navy Seals, in a brilliantly executed invasion.
"Maps provided to soldiers on the ground were tourist maps on which military grid reference lines were drawn by hand to report locations of units and request artillery and aircraft fire support.
They did not show topography and were not marked with crucial positions.
U.S. Navy ships providing naval gunfire and U.S. Marine, U.S. Air Force and navy fighter/bomber support aircraft providing close air support mistakenly fired upon and killed U.S. ground forces due to differences in maps and location coordinates, data, and methods of calling for fire support.
Communications between services were also noted as not being compatible. The landing strip was drawn-in by hand on the map given to some members of the invasion force."