If Vietnam had the PR machine of America, Võ Nguyên Giáp would be heralded as one of the greatest military minds of all time. Instead he is begrudgingly accepted as a good strategist who probably beat 3 of the biggest, most powerful militaries in the world with villagers.

The West doesn't want to admit that a lawyer who was untrained in military doctrine and strategy beat France then the USA then Cambodia then China in a long 40 year fight. To Americans, the Vietnam was a gruesome 20 years. To Vietnam that was the second chapter of a 50 year period where someone tried to conquer them.

I feel like racism definitely played a part on America's side too. Just assumed that they couldn't possibly be strategically intelligent because their houses aren't white picket fence nonsense. Clearly they are "lessers".

Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him 'elpless.

If we are ever invaded by monkeys with balloons, I am ready to serve.

Yeah just leave some mcds out as bait. Maybe do it in DC and Florida

And being willing to have a couple dozen of your own guys get killed for every dead enemy. I feel this tiny detail is being overlooked in this thread.

Holy shit! This Lemmite is one of them! The death magic guys!

Yeah, pointy sticks smeared with shit as a trap are quite effective when the traps are hidden in dense jungle.

Well yeah they were american.

To be fair, that is how averages work.

On a bell curve half are above, half below the exact average point. If you take into account college students were exempt from the draft, you remove a chunk that's likely mostly above the middle point. So by definition, the group leftover would be of below average intelligence, and more than 50% of people word fall below the average point.