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Originally Posted by cmac2012
The conception was just a bit whack also. Big tip o' the hat to Tail Gunner Joe and J. Edgar Hoover. Funny how great wars, great as in hugely awful, often seem to revolve around a scapegoat.
And then we add smirking man of ambition, gonna be a great general, Westmoreland. To this day hawks whine that our rules of engagement didn't allow our guys to really slaughter the damn g****. This in spite of carpet bombing, napalm, and a casualty ratio of between 10 and 20 Vn to every 1 American.
Coulda won that war gawddammit.
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I would have preferred a kill ratio of 10M:1. Or better, not a single American lost in action and mountains of enemy dead. But that's just me.
ROE are usually not a military concern but a political one. The ROE for the military begins with Geneva Conventions and is extended by whatever politician believes expedient.
See, soldiers like to win wars by defeating the enemy. Politicians think was a useful tool for negotiating.