the objective is not to win the war, its to drag it out as long as possible, and publicly palatable. for the money of course. if there true objective was swift victory, with no casualties ... why not just nuke the place? but lets say someone says 'well if they used nukes they be pariahs, the whole world would condemn them?" .... ok then why not just conventionally bomb it into the stone age. never set foot on the ground, just round the clock naval bombardment and aerial bombardment. and btw, naval bombardment is extremely effective. the vast majority of vietnams population lives within 5km of the coast. all the major cities are coastal cities. and in fact, druing the 1960s, the us navy still had half a dozen of battleships ...large ships, with 18inch+ gun batteries, that could send projectiles in excess of 20miles, 38km!!! they could lay down continuous fire, for days. the (heavy) shells weigh in at 2700lbs ... 2700lb shells ffs!!! the typical he shell, for "general bombardment" for a 16 gun weighs 1900lbs. a standard load out for an iowa class battleship includes 1200 shells, but they can easily double that capacity, and besides they'd have no trouble re-supplying. they can fire two shells per minute per gun, with nine guns, that makes 18 rounds per minute.  so, thats 18 2000lb bombs landing every minute, continuously. ..... they could level cities in a matter of days. 720 shells per hour. thats the equivalent of 60 fully loaded b52s striking every hour. thats one, as in single, iowa class battleship .... multiple that by six.  and thats before we even discuss battlecruisers, heavy cruisers, missile cruisers .... and all the auxiliary guns these fuckign war machines carry .... hundreds of fucking batteries of six to twelve inch guns.  and then we could talk about aircraft carriers ....  and then we could talk about the us air force! the simple fact everyone is ignoring. they dont care about "victory" ... they care about profits.
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