• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      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.

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        3 days ago

        It was closer to 3 - 1 during the first two Indochina wars, and 1 - 3 (in the other direction) during the third.
        (The US weren’t the only enemy)