Quote Originally Posted by Macilrille View Post
That is a myth perpetuated by the old single "19", but you should believe what you hear in music even less than what you see on TV!!!

Average age of the US GI KIA in Vietnam was 23.1 years.
Source, http://www.military.com/forums/0,15240,84591,00.html

BTW, the war the US fought in Vietnam pales in comparison with the French one. What made the US one so bad on US psyche was the resistance of hippies back home, the lack of understanding in general of civilians and the fact that they lost.
In what way do you maen it paled in comparison, in the losses of the frenche, the brutality on both sides or something else? (I genuinely do not understand what you mean)

@ celtic punk I tend to agree with your view on this....

As for jungle warfare... I have no idea tbh.... i can imagine the jungle to be a rather brutal enveronment for them too... after all peple rarely live in the jungle in large numbers... Cambodia and Thailand and parts of Vietnam have long been intensely cultivated.... so lot's of open spaces... The jungle would probable not be the battlefield of choice for civilizations that lived around them, since those parts that were jungle had little actual value to said cultures. Also the fact that the cambodians and Thais were known to make exessive use of war elephants I tend to think they would not choose jungle as their preferred terrain of battle..... Also there would have been jungle tribes.... I do not know whether they would be subjugated or not, but if not, that is another indication, if yes I am mistaken and those cultures did extensively campaign in the jungle....