The United States is deploying troops to Syria on the pattern it used during the 1954-1975 Vietnam War, says Scott Bennet, an American counter-terrorism expert and political analyst.
US officials recently told the Reuters news agency that Washington is planning to significantly increase the number of US special forces deployed to Syria.
“The recent reports that the US is increasing its special forces numbers in Syria should not be a surprise,” said Bennet, a former US army psychological warfare officer.
“It’s a standard pattern of an operational development which the US has followed since Vietnam, and in the Vietnam conflict of course it sent advisers that quickly turned into entire army full battalions and brigades which lasted over ten/fifteen years, and that was the Vietnam conflict,” Bennet told Press TV on Saturday.
“So this is how the US follows its conflict management, or war losing if you will, in some of these protracted efforts that are meaningless. It sends advisers and then it expands eventually over a five year period into a full-scale war,” he added.
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It sounds like a repeat of Vietnam
ReplyDelete& with a commie leading our side. :( Couldn't be worst.
DeleteHave you ever heard of or read the following book on Vietnam?
ReplyDeleteThe best and most succinct description of the war in Vietnam as experienced by the soldiers of our regular Army is The L.B.J. Brigade, by William Wilson, (3) published by the Apocalypse Press in Los Angeles in 1966. I regret that I cannot tell you where copies may now be obtained. It is the book you should read, if, for example, you are to understand the outrage perpetrated on Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr., who, to further the demoralization of the American Army, was sent to prison for having obeyed orders to minimize the loss of life in the detachment of which he was in command. He did not understand that the war in Vietnam was fought and managed for the purpose of killing and maiming as many young Americans as possible.
Thanks and no I haven't, it was published in 1966 which was the year I joined the Army, but didn't go to Vietnam until 1967 and stayed there until the very end in 1975 (The saddest day of my life and it still gets me) except for the years '71 and '72. I have read many good books on Vietnam though. Decent Interval ****, A Bright Shining Lie *****, About Face ****, Silence Was A Weapon, The Rescue of River City, Ripcord ******, Mad Dog**** We Were Soldiers Once...and Young and Ride the Thunder*****. The book you mentioned is available on Amazon.
DeleteThanks. Just wondering. Bo Gritz mentioned to his excursion
ReplyDeleteto rescue the POW's which was repeatedly hindered by
Washington. I guess the alien government did not want the
POW's rescued as they denied there being any POW's.
Some more 'left behinds.'
I guess the alien government did not want the
DeletePOW's rescued as they denied there being any POW's.
Then there was Bobby Garwood.
Looked on Wikipedia, Bobby Garwood. Scanned. Will continue
ReplyDeletetomorrow. Seems like he was screwed. AWOL/Deserter/Collaborator. He must have discovered a gov cover-up
like heroine trafficking by the CIA into these free states.
Thanks for the info.
Yes , he had vouchers and others who said he was a traitor.
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