The funny thing is that Ho Chi Minh was a U.S. stan, hoped to have them as allies in their war against French, and genuinely hated Chinese. Yet the U.S. feared any red nation to the point they ignored any reason not to intervene.
Love that the US decided to come up with some galaxy level of paranoia to see someone who is a hardcore US stan as a communist supporter only to kill millions of people and literally changed nothing. Yikes
I have heard numerous stories from the elders in my family about this brutal war. Both my mother and father were kids during the bombing of Hanoi, they were forced to evacuate to the countryside away from their families. I can't be more grateful that I was borned in an era of peace. The video didn't mentioned but there were usage of chemical weapons during the war, I'm talking about Agent Orange. The effect of Agent Orange are still very much present for some families.
It's a defoliant, meant to deny cover to the enemy by killing off vegetation. Problem was, they didn't know how dangerous the residue was when in contact.
@@ReySchultz121 Yeah, It was horrible, sometimes randomly I would recall the graphic images our history teachers would show us. The chemical they used affected both sides, I'm pretty sure there are American Vets who suffered from the aftermath of all those operations.
Ghost tape number 10 is not the name of operation to my knowledge. The operation was called "Wandering soul" and the tape number 10 is just one of the tapes that was played into vietnamese jungle to exploit vietnamese concepts of after life.
Funnily enough, instead of scaring the vn soldier, it did the opposite. They legit thought it was their fallen soldier spirit or ancestor coming back to blessed them so their morals got boosted real high.
Ultimately Operation Wandering Soul did little to actually convince many Vietcong soldiers that sporits were speaking to them, and they started ignoring the sounds, or would fire at the source.
I remember a friend who went to Vietnam as a tourist about 10 years ago asked people about the Vietnam War. The response he got the most was “which one?”
1st Indochina: The French, 2nd Indochina: The Americans, Kampuchea Invades Vietnam, Vietnam Invades Kampuchea, Vietnam Gets Invaded by China, Vietnam fights Khmer Rouge until 90s. All in a timespan of about, 50 years?
@@KhmerRestoration You forgot the three Mongol invasion, various Chinese dynasties invasion, war with Thailand for expansion Cambodia and Laos, war with the Champa kingdom and a war between Vietnamese feudal lords, man Vietnam really can't get away from war even with themselves.
@@Online28_JStr78 I think the joke is that the Americans just put a bunch of random Vietnamese words together and thats what it was in English and the Vietnamese were confused, you cant actually hear a language be spoken but he's pretending thats what was said
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FYI: the bamboo traps barely killed anyone and it's borderline sadistic, how it works is: 4 guys walk into the jungle, one guy fell into a trap, now 2 guys have to carry him back to base for medical aid, last guys has to carry the injured guy's stuff. Then they wait to have a new guy to join the team then go back into the jungle, then a guy fell into a trap, rinse and repeat.
Basically, anti-personnel landmine logic: a good wartime trap doesn't create a corpse to step over, it creates a burden that must be relieved. Of course, I think that's half the reason landmines are considered a banned weapon.
Sadistic means specifically deriving pleasure from hurting people. You cannot possibly know how every trap-layer felt. It could just as well be the best they could manage with the materials available. If they had a magic raygun that just painlessly teleported US soldiers back to USA, they would have used it instead.
My grandpa, Sgt. Francisco, always tells me stories about his tour in Nam. I can see the horrors in his eyes when he tells me about how his unit got ambushed by Vietcong. "It was fast and hard..." He always say. "We cant see them, but they can see us." I can't seem to imagine how they prevailed. The balls on them. Rip pops, really miss ya.
Tell your grandpa a random dude from France tells him “that’ll teach you to mind your own business and not interfere with revolutions all across the world”
''With North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive beginning, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national police chief, was doing all he could to keep Viet Cong guerrillas from Saigon. As Loan executed a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain, AP photographer Eddie Adams opened the shutter. Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for a picture that, as much as any, turned public opinion against the war.''
Fun fact: South Koreans participated in the Vietnam war as part of their support for the Americans were brutal fighters that the Vietnamese forces feared the most. No different to their American counterparts, they have also committed a fair share of war crimes of their own less known in the western media till this day.
Veitcongs also committed atrocities but unlike with the Americans and the Koreans.. It was their own land after all..they were defending themselves from a foreign hostility and sometimes the insurgents going to the same lengths their enemy did is expected. What makes the American one special is that they could have totally just.. Not do it.. Their lack of patience, not desperation, gave the Veitcong the victory. Also.. Screw Korea too
@@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj People love to meat ride the South Korean troops a lot.. I say screw em. Helping a foreign nation invade another nation is not brave. It's low and dishonourable. The Kim regime may not be good themselves but they aren't too wrong about South Korea.
As a Vietnamese and have watched a lot of documentaries about the Vietnam war, I really thank you for making this video, it's really good, you did a great job.
@@JRY-wq4eg I see that the war has brought a lot of pain to our country. Communism is a great regime, why doesn't the US government like it, it's not good that they caused the cold war! And I stand on the side of Communism! Long live Vietnam! Long live the Soviet Union!
@@HuynhHaDucThinh The Soviet Union has been gone for over 30 years now, and why is that? Oh, yeah because communism doesn't work. China is now finding it out as well, and Cuba is communist in name only now a lot more chill since ol' Fidel died but, I don't expect you know actually know any of this living in a communist country.
@@HuynhHaDucThinh I must disagree with part "communism is great regime " I think that communism is the worst ideology that was every created, worse than notzie. Economicaly stupid and cant work. I am from country that was invaded by comminst soviets in 1968 to 1989 (Czechia)they ruined our economy we were extremly behind west plus communist behaved like animals. Did you know that communism killed over 138 millions of ppl? Thats sound like great regime right? What you find great about communism? (No hate just serious question I would like to know) They didnt like it just because soviets were their enemy and doesnt want to let spread this plague all over world. I think communism will never work bcs of ppl nature, plus I find it stupid that get the same as someone who did less of work than me. Capitalism isnt perfect but its best economy so far. But I think its good when you have both mixed together, we have capitalism and some socialim things, like free healthcare, schools, pension thats some good things that communist did, but there is much more bad things that they did
The french did not just surrender. The majority of the french people were against the war at that point in time and the french government under Pierre Mendes France opted for a peaceful ending of the war. Kinda how the war ended for the americans. And the french soldiers also performed better with less than the americans with more.
Over 3.4 million US soldiers deployed over a 20 year period, and almost 60,000 of them died. Add to that over a million civilian deaths from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, the latter two being affected by the conflict spilling over into their territory, and the thousands of veterans on both sides left with crippling injuries and PTSD. After seeing the aftermath of the OEF withdrawal from Afghanistan, a war with quite a few similarities to Vietnam, I wonder how much the US has really learned.
On the note of not learning: The Soviets only studied the Second Indochina War from the North Vietnamese perspective, and consequently had to brutally relearn the US' lessons during their Afghan war. Flash forward a decade later, and the US decides not to study the Soviet experience before invading Afghanistan. Whoops
@@s1gma272 Afghanistan and Vietnam bear quite a few similarities. From a geographic standpoint, we have difficult terrain that the US is not used to, with harsh jungles in Vietnam, and mountainous landscapes present in Afghanistan. Additionally, in both conflicts we did not have the full support of the people, and you cannot win a war against an insurgency like the Taliban or Viet Cong without the support of the local population. In both conflicts we tried to leverage our overwhelming military power and tactics to defeat the enemy, and in both we ultimately failed. I could go on but those are the key points.
My grandfather was a conscientious objecter, I'm so glad I was able to have him in my life I couldn't ever imagine having a grandparent I'd never met cause of a war so bs
Your chances of dying in Nam compared to ww1 ww2 and Korea were comparatively low. Nam has the reputation of being worse than the other wars because of TV
My Grandpa was in the Navy during Vietnam, but he never got deployed there. He said he wished he went there because he wanted to tell stories about it. I said no you don’t, unless you want to be a name on the wall.
@@ducduynguyen9084the second one was the one used to justify the war, and it was purposefully staged, not a radar glitch, these fact-additives are created after the fact to save face.
I think what made the Vietnam War even more difficult and effectively impossible to win was that it was a War of Counter Insurgency. The US didnt commit to a conventional invasion of North Vietnam due to fears that it would turn out like Korea and cause a Chinese counter attack. Also the domino effect did kick in, but only once as Cambodia fell to a Communist Regime. But even more ironically that regime caved in the wake of a united Communist Vietnam.
Yes, and it was not a necessarily illegal execution in any IHL/LOAC sense. It was a police officer committing a judicial action against a criminal, not a combatant.
6:10 Australian troops in Vietnam: Who said it was only the Viet Cong were the only ones who set up booby traps, or even terrify the enemy that they called them "Phantoms of the Jungle".
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@@luonggiaphat7946 I mean, no thats actually a completely accurate way to put it. When it came down to the inevitable direct showdowns where the NVA or VC had to commit to a straight up brawl...the US won most of the major engagements that happened and frankly if we wanted to we could have just walked up into Hanoi and the only thing the NVA could do would be to slow us down by a couple of months. The exact same thing was true of Iraq and Afghanistan, even for the Soviets it was true in that sand encrusted gaggle of mountains. The issue was win conditions. Ours was impossible, being the big guy that the jerk (Hi France) hides behind because he knows we can't say no tends to have that effect, and for all the fricked up stuff we did, to well and truly win we'd have to stoop to levels that only fascists and communists were capable of. Theirs though? Just don't die. Which is exceedingly easy to do when you avoid fights unless absolutely necessary, which is something they only had to do because again if they commit to a standup fight they usually lose and they understood this with absolute clarity, afterall these were not dumb people whatsoever.
Now imagine if this was a playable videogame with those graphics! I'd even pay 60$ for it if it featured all the things saw on video! It would be so fun having massive servers and play Vietnam war.
My parents were part of the evacuation from South Vietnam. My Father and his family lost a lot of family members to the communists and he nearly was captured and killed by them on multiple occasions
@@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj Over 200 strategic bombers flattened the north, PAVN absurd claim over 80 shot down but in reality it was just 16. Hanoi to rubble and a few precious MiG-21s dropped, got the communist to yield for negotiations to sign Paris Peace Accords then later they violated and took the South.
My grandfather was stationed in Saigon during the war he says that whenever they woke up the Viet Cong would fire mortars into their camp. The traps were also not healthy during patrols
LOL, ya it was pretty funny to watch, however I feel like it was too focused on dissing the United States, in the end we accomplished what our initial goal was and the casualty rate for the NVA was a loooooooooot more then American soldiers, on top of that we supported south Vietnam enough to instill a democratic government a couple years later of the US pulling out of Vietnam
@@raptor9740 In other news, Ho Chi Minh asked for the help of USA first before turning to the Soviets when the French colonized Vietnam. So you guys basically came and killed millions of people to basically achieve the same thing if you guys have just AGREED to help
@@raptor9740 the united states goal was to prevent the spread of communism to vietnam and they failed that. and the fact that nva got more casualties than the us points the senselessness of the war, wasting lifes of soldiers under powerful yet wasteful and irresponsible politicians
@@raptor9740 what goals? Containing China? Stop the spread of Communism? I mean seriously US didnt accomplish any of that and plus, US didnt go to war intending to kill as many as possible and you just made your country look like a piece of shit by saying that Yeah sure, North Vietnam suffered huge casualties and that was not entirely US's works. It was also because NVA soldiers had to marched all the way to South, they encountered diseases, fatique, wild animals,....and 1/3 of the casualties were made because of those reasons
They lost lost, they tried to invade and overthrow the government and failed. The U.S. defended south vietnam, negotiated a withdrawal, and the south got invaded after the U.S left.
@@mr.heisenberg0122 china does not pretend it won that war like Americans love to do....thats why we always ignore that and highlight the american loss
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funfact, Việt Minh did not have support of the people due to Ngô Đình Diệm being an A-hole. But because the regime in the South was a continuation of the Puppet regime set up by the French, and the people still hated the French and support whoever that fought the French. Secondly, Diệm was murdered during a coup, well the only succesfull of a bunch. Thirdly, Diệm did not just suppress Vietnamese Communists but other mallitary groups that once supported or against the French. forthly, Communist in the South actually, disregarded order from the party to peacely protest to urge the American to honnor the previously agree general election in 1956. Because they were being murdered in row. Thus, the party had to inact order to support armed resistant in the South.
@@stmerippastely most of these are in Vietnamese History textbook, textbook of all kind in general ain't a reliable source but what else could we use.
Fun fact: the Vietnam war is a prime example of how the press can lose a war that you're winning. What a lot of people don't understand is that the Tet Offensive was the culmination of more than a year of logistical staging, training, and general preparation of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). It was also the largest, most devastating loss, for the NVA. In short, the US had beaten the NVA to a pulp after the Tet Offensive. They lost a huge swathe of their infantry, artillery, NCO corps, officers, and most importantly trained veterans. Prisoners revealed the location of remaining ammo dumps and staging points which were all destroyed. Consumables such as ammo, mortar rounds, and weapons which took months to smuggle into the country from Russia in large numbers were all captured and/or destroyed. The NVA ceased to be an effective fighting force at that point. The US was on the verge of winning the war and could have pushed into North Vietnam without much resistance. Ho Chi Mingh and the NVA had banked on this one single attack to wipe out US and ARVN forces which looked really good on paper due to the number of troops and materials available. They severely underestimated the ability of the US military to fight a conventional war as the NVA and Vietcong had been having some success with guerilla warfare. Despite all of this, Walter Cronkite, a respected journalist at the time went on to tell everyone that the war was unwinnable. Support for the war died overnight. Protests really started to take off and morale dropped like a rock for the US. Despite his advisors explaining the situation, Nixon failed to capitalize on these hard won victories and instead pulled back and consolidated US forces. It took the NVA almost 3 years to rebuild their army which is what rolled into Saigon in the last days. And ironically was smaller than the forces used during the Tet offensive and would have been defeated had regular US forces been their in their usual numbers. Memoirs from surviving NVA members all recount how shocked they were that the US did nothing. They all thought they had lost and their own morale gone. In short, Vietnam could have been won but ultimately became a waste of lives and resources due to ineptitude of senior officers and lack of political will but most importantly due to the media which had hated the war, had pro-communist sympathies, and often made no attempts to hide these facts. The largest difference from what we see today was that there were only a handful of news sources back then allowing for a near monopoly of the news and information by a few companies and people.
You can never won in Vietnam. We Vietnamese remained in advantage despite heavy losses. Rhe war will still continue in our favor even if it dragged on longer.
@@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj You can't do much if you don't have an army nor supplies. Where would you get your guns and ammo? Much was lost after Tet. From 69-71, very little happened as the NVA was trying to rebuild and ship in more weapons from Russia. What would have happened if they had mined Haipong harbor earlier? Or worse, what if they rolled a battleship into the harbor and begun to attack the harbor area? No weapons, no more SAMs, no more anything from Russia. Bombing from planes had stopped and nobody was attacking Saigon at the time. Had the US done so, then the NVA rebuilding would really have been hurt. At that point, even the South Vietnamese Army would have been able to handle things by themselves.
@@brainplay8060 Please. Vietnam was bombed more than Japan yet still remain unwavered. We Vietnamese rebuilding the nation by outselves through hardwork anf intellect. Your army couldn't best us in battles, and keep making excuses. No wonder why you lost.
@@brainplay8060 US destroyed many of our infrastructure but failed to do anything to stop your advance. Besides, your puppet in the South couldn't even fight for themselves, they were a lost cause, so as your invasion in Vietnam.
@@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj You say our army couldn't best you in battles and yet, we won almost all of the battles. From Tet, Hue, Lam Son, the Easter Offensive. I'm sorry but the North Vietnamese Army didn't win the war by winning battles. They won the war because our people gave up believing that it would end AND from the incompetence of leadership. Yes, the Vietnamese military did a lot of hard work. But it was largely destroyed in 1968 after Tet. Had the USA decided to invade the North, or even land troops in Saigon, there was have been little that the NVA could do about it. They have lot the majority of their troops including veterans and trained officers during the March 68 Tet offensive. Yes, Vietnam was bombed a lot. And there is a reason why it was bombed so much with few gains. Our military leaders made bad mistakes and separated our military branches. The Army, Air Force, and Navy were all given sectors to bomb, but had large restriction on them and couldn't help anyone else. They were all jealous of each other and their poor handling led to many inefficiencies. They would bomb a factory 5x because it looked good on paper, while it had already been destroyed after the first time.
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No no no
Just when I saw the title...i start hearing fortunes son
That song is more american than attacking middle eastern countries
WHAT THE FUCK THE VID WAS POSTED 26 MINUTES AGO AND THIS IS 53 MINUTES OLD
@@Its_Cheese2 he is a member and gets early access to videos
The funny thing is that Ho Chi Minh was a U.S. stan, hoped to have them as allies in their war against French, and genuinely hated Chinese. Yet the U.S. feared any red nation to the point they ignored any reason not to intervene.
Well at the very least these days we are allies if only in convenience.
yeah during ww2 usa did supply ho chi minh with weapon and they also help us pilot that crash landed in vietnam
took you guys 80 years to figure out the Chinese haters are in fact, Chinese haters lol
@@thanhnamnguyen5280 I’m not American tho
Love that the US decided to come up with some galaxy level of paranoia to see someone who is a hardcore US stan as a communist supporter only to kill millions of people and literally changed nothing. Yikes
I have heard numerous stories from the elders in my family about this brutal war. Both my mother and father were kids during the bombing of Hanoi, they were forced to evacuate to the countryside away from their families. I can't be more grateful that I was borned in an era of peace.
The video didn't mentioned but there were usage of chemical weapons during the war, I'm talking about Agent Orange. The effect of Agent Orange are still very much present for some families.
You can thank the friendly folks at the Monsanto Company for that nasty bit of business.
@@Ironclockwork and Kissinger
Agent Orange is still very controversial in the US because many veterans still suffer side effects from it.
It's a defoliant, meant to deny cover to the enemy by killing off vegetation.
Problem was, they didn't know how dangerous the residue was when in contact.
@@ReySchultz121 Yeah, It was horrible, sometimes randomly I would recall the graphic images our history teachers would show us. The chemical they used affected both sides, I'm pretty sure there are American Vets who suffered from the aftermath of all those operations.
Ghost tape number 10 is not the name of operation to my knowledge. The operation was called "Wandering soul" and the tape number 10 is just one of the tapes that was played into vietnamese jungle to exploit vietnamese concepts of after life.
Ghost Tape No. 10 would be a great name for a gothic industrial metal band.
The Vietnamese would instead just shoot at the direction the tape was being played lol
Funnily enough, instead of scaring the vn soldier, it did the opposite. They legit thought it was their fallen soldier spirit or ancestor coming back to blessed them so their morals got boosted real high.
so...terrorism
Ultimately Operation Wandering Soul did little to actually convince many Vietcong soldiers that sporits were speaking to them, and they started ignoring the sounds, or would fire at the source.
5:14 “you could lose more blood being covered in leaches than fucking bullet wounds.”
Please don’t fuck bullet wounds.
I mean.... If my homie were looking abit too cute on the battlefield and he just got shot by a meaty 50. cal to the ribs. You know im taking the dibs.
I swear there is a doujin of this somewhere
I remember a friend who went to Vietnam as a tourist about 10 years ago asked people about the Vietnam War. The response he got the most was “which one?”
We never mention it as Vietnam war, it kinda war for unified our country
@@phucduy4470 That makes sense. It would be pretty weird if we called our civil war the “America War.”
1st Indochina: The French, 2nd Indochina: The Americans, Kampuchea Invades Vietnam, Vietnam Invades Kampuchea, Vietnam Gets Invaded by China, Vietnam fights Khmer Rouge until 90s. All in a timespan of about, 50 years?
@@KhmerRestoration Vietnam really be speedrunning those achievements
@@KhmerRestoration You forgot the three Mongol invasion, various Chinese dynasties invasion, war with Thailand for expansion Cambodia and Laos, war with the Champa kingdom and a war between Vietnamese feudal lords, man Vietnam really can't get away from war even with themselves.
7:26 "Did he say 'A battle between a toaster oven and a garbage can could create a new multiverse'?"
"I don't know man. I don't know."
Explain
I didn't hear that
what?
I understand the reference but its hard to know
@@Online28_JStr78 I think the joke is that the Americans just put a bunch of random Vietnamese words together and thats what it was in English and the Vietnamese were confused, you cant actually hear a language be spoken but he's pretending thats what was said
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00:20 I'm watching this video while chilling in a hammock in Vietnam, how coincidental.
Were in Vietnam u chillin?
I'm jealous, enjoy the food.
Vietnam food very cheap
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3:46 i get the comedy part of the video but in reality the monk who did this made no sound while burning alive
The monk whom is being consumed by the fire is Thích Quảng Đức for anyone who does not know
he just sit there in perfect zen-meditation form.
FYI: the bamboo traps barely killed anyone and it's borderline sadistic, how it works is: 4 guys walk into the jungle, one guy fell into a trap, now 2 guys have to carry him back to base for medical aid, last guys has to carry the injured guy's stuff. Then they wait to have a new guy to join the team then go back into the jungle, then a guy fell into a trap, rinse and repeat.
Basically, anti-personnel landmine logic: a good wartime trap doesn't create a corpse to step over, it creates a burden that must be relieved.
Of course, I think that's half the reason landmines are considered a banned weapon.
Outgunned, you've got to get creative. You can call it sadistic, but if it works, you're going to do it.
Sadistic means specifically deriving pleasure from hurting people. You cannot possibly know how every trap-layer felt. It could just as well be the best they could manage with the materials available. If they had a magic raygun that just painlessly teleported US soldiers back to USA, they would have used it instead.
If I remmber right the punji sticks ended up causing the making of the green mesh jungle boot ,which had a steel shank in the sole of the boot
@@rainbowwhitey9274 take my upvotes
My grandpa, Sgt. Francisco, always tells me stories about his tour in Nam. I can see the horrors in his eyes when he tells me about how his unit got ambushed by Vietcong.
"It was fast and hard..." He always say.
"We cant see them, but they can see us."
I can't seem to imagine how they prevailed. The balls on them. Rip pops, really miss ya.
Tell your Grandpa that a dude from Czechia says "thanks for your Service Sgt. Francissco"
It was fast and hard💀😭😭
Tell your grandpa a random dude from France tells him “that’ll teach you to mind your own business and not interfere with revolutions all across the world”
@@NMikael isn't the French dude supposed to tell that to the crazy politicians?
@@Chairmomen bro's too green minded
I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees and I do very much confirm they DO SPEAK VIETNAMESE!
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as a tree, i can confirm we can speak vietnamese.
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-Bro died by Vietnam lorax in 2024 to 1969 😂
Stop, stop, this joke is already dead
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10:59 I saw the actual photo of this incident in my history class. It's called the Saigon Execution.
Read somewhere that apparently if you enlarge the picture large enoug, one could see the bullet exiting the executed guy's head. Gorey.
Fun fact, there’s actually a video of it
''With North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive beginning, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national police chief, was doing all he could to keep Viet Cong guerrillas from Saigon. As Loan executed a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain, AP photographer Eddie Adams opened the shutter. Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for a picture that, as much as any, turned public opinion against the war.''
Wasn’t the VC guy a spy, which violated the Geneva Convention since he was a officer of the NVA, and also killed an entire dudes family as well?
@@joeyfrink9691 Correct, the picture was a still from the film, which I have also seen.
'Pubic Chin Minge' is not a phrase I ever expected to hear
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Fun fact: South Koreans participated in the Vietnam war as part of their support for the Americans were brutal fighters that the Vietnamese forces feared the most. No different to their American counterparts, they have also committed a fair share of war crimes of their own less known in the western media till this day.
Veitcongs also committed atrocities but unlike with the Americans and the Koreans.. It was their own land after all..they were defending themselves from a foreign hostility and sometimes the insurgents going to the same lengths their enemy did is expected.
What makes the American one special is that they could have totally just.. Not do it.. Their lack of patience, not desperation, gave the Veitcong the victory.
Also.. Screw Korea too
Vietnamese never forget South Korean soldiers crimes.
@@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj People love to meat ride the South Korean troops a lot.. I say screw em. Helping a foreign nation invade another nation is not brave. It's low and dishonourable.
The Kim regime may not be good themselves but they aren't too wrong about South Korea.
The S. Koreans where insanely effective soldiers.
They were ultimately crushed by both NLF and PAVN.
As a Vietnamese and have watched a lot of documentaries about the Vietnam war, I really thank you for making this video, it's really good, you did a great job.
What do you think about our country Vietnam before and after making this video?
What do you think about that war? which side you are on?
@@JRY-wq4eg I see that the war has brought a lot of pain to our country. Communism is a great regime, why doesn't the US government like it, it's not good that they caused the cold war!
And I stand on the side of Communism! Long live Vietnam! Long live the Soviet Union!
@@HuynhHaDucThinh The Soviet Union has been gone for over 30 years now, and why is that? Oh, yeah because communism doesn't work. China is now finding it out as well, and Cuba is communist in name only now a lot more chill since ol' Fidel died but, I don't expect you know actually know any of this living in a communist country.
@@HuynhHaDucThinh I must disagree with part "communism is great regime " I think that communism is the worst ideology that was every created, worse than notzie. Economicaly stupid and cant work. I am from country that was invaded by comminst soviets in 1968 to 1989 (Czechia)they ruined our economy we were extremly behind west plus communist behaved like animals. Did you know that communism killed over 138 millions of ppl? Thats sound like great regime right? What you find great about communism? (No hate just serious question I would like to know) They didnt like it just because soviets were their enemy and doesnt want to let spread this plague all over world. I think communism will never work bcs of ppl nature, plus I find it stupid that get the same as someone who did less of work than me. Capitalism isnt perfect but its best economy so far. But I think its good when you have both mixed together, we have capitalism and some socialim things, like free healthcare, schools, pension thats some good things that communist did, but there is much more bad things that they did
The french did not just surrender. The majority of the french people were against the war at that point in time and the french government under Pierre Mendes France opted for a peaceful ending of the war. Kinda how the war ended for the americans. And the french soldiers also performed better with less than the americans with more.
They’re in the trees
They’re in the trees
THEY IN THE GODDAM TREES!!!!
RAAAAAAAAH! *Fires m60 into trees*
I am the lorax, I speak for the trees... why are they speaking Vietnamese?
THE TREES ARE SPEAKING VIETNAMESE
Over 3.4 million US soldiers deployed over a 20 year period, and almost 60,000 of them died. Add to that over a million civilian deaths from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, the latter two being affected by the conflict spilling over into their territory, and the thousands of veterans on both sides left with crippling injuries and PTSD. After seeing the aftermath of the OEF withdrawal from Afghanistan, a war with quite a few similarities to Vietnam, I wonder how much the US has really learned.
Edit: That should say Freedom’s Sentinel, not OEF. OEF ended in 2014 while Freedom’s Sentinel ended with the US withdrawal in 2021.
On the note of not learning: The Soviets only studied the Second Indochina War from the North Vietnamese perspective, and consequently had to brutally relearn the US' lessons during their Afghan war. Flash forward a decade later, and the US decides not to study the Soviet experience before invading Afghanistan. Whoops
? both are different?
@@VeekerStudios usa learned that managing a corrupt country is hard
@@s1gma272 Afghanistan and Vietnam bear quite a few similarities. From a geographic standpoint, we have difficult terrain that the US is not used to, with harsh jungles in Vietnam, and mountainous landscapes present in Afghanistan. Additionally, in both conflicts we did not have the full support of the people, and you cannot win a war against an insurgency like the Taliban or Viet Cong without the support of the local population. In both conflicts we tried to leverage our overwhelming military power and tactics to defeat the enemy, and in both we ultimately failed. I could go on but those are the key points.
My grandfather was a conscientious objecter, I'm so glad I was able to have him in my life I couldn't ever imagine having a grandparent I'd never met cause of a war so bs
Your chances of dying in Nam compared to ww1 ww2 and Korea were comparatively low. Nam has the reputation of being worse than the other wars because of TV
My Grandpa was in the Navy during Vietnam, but he never got deployed there. He said he wished he went there because he wanted to tell stories about it. I said no you don’t, unless you want to be a name on the wall.
@@williamkarbala5718 Pretty true, Vietnam was the war that ordinary people could see on Tv that previous wars wouldn't have
Team fortrsss two
Damn, didn't know that Team Fortress 2 items are real.
4:19 This never actually happened. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a radar glitch that was reported as a Vietnamese attack.
That the second encounter, the first one is indeed a naval battle
@@ducduynguyen9084 a naval attack that was faked
@@ducduynguyen9084 Correct.
@@ducduynguyen9084the second one was the one used to justify the war, and it was purposefully staged, not a radar glitch, these fact-additives are created after the fact to save face.
Yet another war started with the telling of a bare faced lie.
I think what made the Vietnam War even more difficult and effectively impossible to win was that it was a War of Counter Insurgency. The US didnt commit to a conventional invasion of North Vietnam due to fears that it would turn out like Korea and cause a Chinese counter attack.
Also the domino effect did kick in, but only once as Cambodia fell to a Communist Regime. But even more ironically that regime caved in the wake of a united Communist Vietnam.
hands down the most informative and visually accurate documentation of the conflict bar none.. great job yall
This has to be one of my favorite somewhat unknown chanel out there. Watched your first video back when y'all just started. Keep it up!
Love the animation style and story telling. 4:49 is especially beautiful.
2 days until Vietnam Independence day Sep2nd, Coincident? May be. Makes this vid even more fantastic.
Man, this looks like 4K! Your animations are getting better.
The guy shoots the soldier in the last picture was not in PAVN. He is Loan, worked for police of South vietnamese.
Yes, and it was not a necessarily illegal execution in any IHL/LOAC sense. It was a police officer committing a judicial action against a criminal, not a combatant.
@@failtolawl Except he was a combatant and there was no adjudication. It was illegal under South Vietnamese law.
@@andro7862 He took off his uniform and identifying marks and was caught as a spy. He is not protected as a combatant.
Mitsi studios can make anything become funny and entertaining with their style of content
2:18 "The French surrendered because... well why am I explaining this? Beacause they're French." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The animation quality and smoothness has improved so much! It makes it so much more fun to watch. Keep it up guys!
6:26 COD reference
Yes
Cold War or original black ops
@@joeyfrink9691both
They're in the same timeline
@@tristanrobert7090 fair enough
Good job buddy
6:10 Australian troops in Vietnam: Who said it was only the Viet Cong were the only ones who set up booby traps, or even terrify the enemy that they called them "Phantoms of the Jungle".
Lol a made up story. The Australians were irrelevant in Vietnam history.
Right after your War Thunder Sponsorship plug, and I MEAN LITERALLY RIGHT AFTER, I got a War Thunder ad with exactly the same War Thunder footage as the sponsorship plug
meant to be!
good to see they still kicking
"Gromit?"
"Did that tree just speak Vietnamese?"
7:50 Animation bug there; the Nuoc Nuoc text shrunk and grew.
I was literally just about to say
Makes me wonder how many of those sign glitches I missed in previous videos
True but so did i
unrelated fact: thats basically "water water" in Vietnamese
6:38 the "yeah boys" got me lmao
That was the most patriotic line recorded in history
Half of Americans even today: "we didn't lose, we just Merely failed to win"
Lmao, true, it's literally every major power everytime they got humiliated.
True 😂😂😂
Just like how Chinese would do 😂😂
Or: "We didn't lose, we just got tired and so we went home."
@@luonggiaphat7946 I mean, no thats actually a completely accurate way to put it. When it came down to the inevitable direct showdowns where the NVA or VC had to commit to a straight up brawl...the US won most of the major engagements that happened and frankly if we wanted to we could have just walked up into Hanoi and the only thing the NVA could do would be to slow us down by a couple of months. The exact same thing was true of Iraq and Afghanistan, even for the Soviets it was true in that sand encrusted gaggle of mountains. The issue was win conditions.
Ours was impossible, being the big guy that the jerk (Hi France) hides behind because he knows we can't say no tends to have that effect, and for all the fricked up stuff we did, to well and truly win we'd have to stoop to levels that only fascists and communists were capable of. Theirs though? Just don't die. Which is exceedingly easy to do when you avoid fights unless absolutely necessary, which is something they only had to do because again if they commit to a standup fight they usually lose and they understood this with absolute clarity, afterall these were not dumb people whatsoever.
How has Mitsi Studio not made a game for all their work, imagine it, the goofy art style, gore, lot's of flashy bullet sand gonky controls
I would absolutely love a game like that
A good idea, but animating is way different than game dev. But let's hope he'll branch his skills
Now imagine if this was a playable videogame with those graphics! I'd even pay 60$ for it if it featured all the things saw on video! It would be so fun having massive servers and play Vietnam war.
I love these kinda 3d animated war videos on this channel
S. Vietnam: i have all super powerful weapons
N. Vietnam: i have Soviet bias
My parents were part of the evacuation from South Vietnam. My Father and his family lost a lot of family members to the communists and he nearly was captured and killed by them on multiple occasions
Best history chanel on the world🗿
Oversimplified been real quite since this dropped
Don’t forget yarnhub
ever heard of Oversimplified and band Sabaton? :D
@@PonniyamSlevanArunMozhi Always has been 😂. But no, seriously where the fluck is he
Nah, History Matters is the GOAT. But Mitsi is a close second. Sorry Mitsi.
The quality and animation never disappoints me.
I wish the U.S liked me :( . Seriously though great animation as always Mitsi studios
I’m an American and I like you!!!
Hold on, the FBI is at my door
Mitsi studios never misses always a good video. 👍🏻
"Vietnamese cant hide in the jungle if theres no jungle" -us airforce
That's why they used the orange toxin to destroy the jungles to reveal our forces.
"How about some cold lead to your airplanes". Vietcong probably.
@@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj Over 200 strategic bombers flattened the north, PAVN absurd claim over 80 shot down but in reality it was just 16. Hanoi to rubble and a few precious MiG-21s dropped, got the communist to yield for negotiations to sign Paris Peace Accords then later they violated and took the South.
I worked for 18 hours straight, so tired I slept with my work clothes on, a notification from MITSI woke me up from my deep sleep.
Worth it.
My grandfather was stationed in Saigon during the war he says that whenever they woke up the Viet Cong would fire mortars into their camp. The traps were also not healthy during patrols
Love u Mitzi! Y’all make the most engaging and high quality animations eva!! Smart, funny, and well done!
The Rendering became a lot smoother :)
I think that was a major improvement.
This channel is so cool , i cant belive im so dumb that i didnt find this channel sooner
Another banger from mitsi
This video looks a whole lot smoother and higher quality, with much more detail in the enviroment. I can see Mitsi's improving.
No offence to the Vietnam movies but I think this is the best depiction of Vietnam… Sorry…
LOL, ya it was pretty funny to watch, however I feel like it was too focused on dissing the United States, in the end we accomplished what our initial goal was and the casualty rate for the NVA was a loooooooooot more then American soldiers, on top of that we supported south Vietnam enough to instill a democratic government a couple years later of the US pulling out of Vietnam
@@raptor9740 In other news, Ho Chi Minh asked for the help of USA first before turning to the Soviets when the French colonized Vietnam. So you guys basically came and killed millions of people to basically achieve the same thing if you guys have just AGREED to help
@@raptor9740 your mission objective just look like horseshit now that all you wanted to do with Vietnam was to half colonize it. Great job
@@raptor9740 the united states goal was to prevent the spread of communism to vietnam and they failed that. and the fact that nva got more casualties than the us points the senselessness of the war, wasting lifes of soldiers under powerful yet wasteful and irresponsible politicians
@@raptor9740 what goals? Containing China? Stop the spread of Communism? I mean seriously US didnt accomplish any of that and plus, US didnt go to war intending to kill as many as possible and you just made your country look like a piece of shit by saying that
Yeah sure, North Vietnam suffered huge casualties and that was not entirely US's works. It was also because NVA soldiers had to marched all the way to South, they encountered diseases, fatique, wild animals,....and 1/3 of the casualties were made because of those reasons
Ho chi minge chin😂, I absolutely love you guys. Can’t wait for the next installment 👍
Been to Vietnam once
What a great nation they have built
Nation of heroes.
Nation of Heroes and great nation love from algeria
Thank you for your kind words.
I’m so glad you talked about nixons meddling with the peace talks
China also lost a a war to Vietnam too.
People always forget about that one
China and us Vietnamese have a lot of countless war from the early age, 1979 they take the advantage of us fighting the Polpot, they attack us
They lost lost, they tried to invade and overthrow the government and failed. The U.S. defended south vietnam, negotiated a withdrawal, and the south got invaded after the U.S left.
@@mr.heisenberg0122 china does not pretend it won that war like Americans love to do....thats why we always ignore that and highlight the american loss
@@chargedx5768 liar
These animations look freaking awesome man, I wish this was a game that I could play. Also, good coverage of the war.
Better run through the Jungle
Whoa, Don't look back to see
The quality of the animation is better than the previous ones, it shows that Mitsi are always improving to deliver the best of the best to us, thanks a lot!
*58,281 US casualties is crazy.*
the cost of freedom never cheap :(
...compared to like 1 million vietcong casualties
The animation quality just keeps getting better and better
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM
I dig the (Heli crane) depiction. My adopted father worked for Erickson Air crane for over 2 decades.
Phenomenal aircraft!
where is my flamethrower?
I’ve starting watching this channel since that Hitler video and I can honestly say, This is probably one of the best vids I’ve seen yet.
Thank you Mitzi Studio
thanks for watching. It is still Mitsi studio:D
Don’t forget about Kent State. 4 Anti-war protesters were killed and 9 were wounded when the National Guard opened fire.
Well… as the saying goes, national guard 4 hippies 0
He did reference that with the people putting flowers on the guns of the soldiers with a loud bang before it transitioned to the next scene.
The lighting and color in these shots is just awesome
The US used devices that sent a signal for a bombing run on the Ho Chi Minh trail, and they were disguised as poop.
This is a wicked tongue in cheek rundown of the war in Vietnam. Another fine take on human history.
Anybody who runs is a VC
Anybody who stands still is a WELL-DISCIPLINED VC
AIN'T WAR HELL?
No wonder US lost. You cannot win a war without conquering hearts.
Remember when this studio only had 2 videos about “how countries fight wars”
Yall need to make a American soilder plush
This has been one of the best videos from you guys!!!
funfact, Việt Minh did not have support of the people due to Ngô Đình Diệm being an A-hole. But because the regime in the South was a continuation of the Puppet regime set up by the French, and the people still hated the French and support whoever that fought the French.
Secondly, Diệm was murdered during a coup, well the only succesfull of a bunch.
Thirdly, Diệm did not just suppress Vietnamese Communists but other mallitary groups that once supported or against the French.
forthly, Communist in the South actually, disregarded order from the party to peacely protest to urge the American to honnor the previously agree general election in 1956. Because they were being murdered in row. Thus, the party had to inact order to support armed resistant in the South.
"source ?"
"trust me bro"
@@stmerippastely most of these are in Vietnamese History textbook, textbook of all kind in general ain't a reliable source but what else could we use.
These animations are getting better and better
GROMMET!
DID THAT TREE SPEAK VIETNAMESE!?
I love how uncensored these videos are.
2:19 bro's from netherland and think he can make fun of this lol
even france lasted longer in ur own country during ww2, france forces left netherland 2 days after netherland surrender.
yeah ok frenchie..
sorry if I offended you dutchy
no problemo fr*nchie
I never heard Netherlands being called a super power, but France was referred to as such and still got clap
Best animation/documentary/history/comedic channel on TH-cam
''They're in the tree , THEY IN THE GOD DAMN TREE''
-French and Us vets
I have been particularly looking forward for this, especially after watching that stage play.
Fun fact: the Vietnam war is a prime example of how the press can lose a war that you're winning. What a lot of people don't understand is that the Tet Offensive was the culmination of more than a year of logistical staging, training, and general preparation of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). It was also the largest, most devastating loss, for the NVA. In short, the US had beaten the NVA to a pulp after the Tet Offensive. They lost a huge swathe of their infantry, artillery, NCO corps, officers, and most importantly trained veterans. Prisoners revealed the location of remaining ammo dumps and staging points which were all destroyed. Consumables such as ammo, mortar rounds, and weapons which took months to smuggle into the country from Russia in large numbers were all captured and/or destroyed. The NVA ceased to be an effective fighting force at that point. The US was on the verge of winning the war and could have pushed into North Vietnam without much resistance. Ho Chi Mingh and the NVA had banked on this one single attack to wipe out US and ARVN forces which looked really good on paper due to the number of troops and materials available. They severely underestimated the ability of the US military to fight a conventional war as the NVA and Vietcong had been having some success with guerilla warfare.
Despite all of this, Walter Cronkite, a respected journalist at the time went on to tell everyone that the war was unwinnable. Support for the war died overnight. Protests really started to take off and morale dropped like a rock for the US. Despite his advisors explaining the situation, Nixon failed to capitalize on these hard won victories and instead pulled back and consolidated US forces. It took the NVA almost 3 years to rebuild their army which is what rolled into Saigon in the last days. And ironically was smaller than the forces used during the Tet offensive and would have been defeated had regular US forces been their in their usual numbers. Memoirs from surviving NVA members all recount how shocked they were that the US did nothing. They all thought they had lost and their own morale gone.
In short, Vietnam could have been won but ultimately became a waste of lives and resources due to ineptitude of senior officers and lack of political will but most importantly due to the media which had hated the war, had pro-communist sympathies, and often made no attempts to hide these facts. The largest difference from what we see today was that there were only a handful of news sources back then allowing for a near monopoly of the news and information by a few companies and people.
You can never won in Vietnam. We Vietnamese remained in advantage despite heavy losses. Rhe war will still continue in our favor even if it dragged on longer.
@@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj You can't do much if you don't have an army nor supplies. Where would you get your guns and ammo? Much was lost after Tet. From 69-71, very little happened as the NVA was trying to rebuild and ship in more weapons from Russia.
What would have happened if they had mined Haipong harbor earlier? Or worse, what if they rolled a battleship into the harbor and begun to attack the harbor area? No weapons, no more SAMs, no more anything from Russia. Bombing from planes had stopped and nobody was attacking Saigon at the time. Had the US done so, then the NVA rebuilding would really have been hurt.
At that point, even the South Vietnamese Army would have been able to handle things by themselves.
@@brainplay8060 Please. Vietnam was bombed more than Japan yet still remain unwavered. We Vietnamese rebuilding the nation by outselves through hardwork anf intellect. Your army couldn't best us in battles, and keep making excuses. No wonder why you lost.
@@brainplay8060 US destroyed many of our infrastructure but failed to do anything to stop your advance. Besides, your puppet in the South couldn't even fight for themselves, they were a lost cause, so as your invasion in Vietnam.
@@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj You say our army couldn't best you in battles and yet, we won almost all of the battles. From Tet, Hue, Lam Son, the Easter Offensive. I'm sorry but the North Vietnamese Army didn't win the war by winning battles. They won the war because our people gave up believing that it would end AND from the incompetence of leadership.
Yes, the Vietnamese military did a lot of hard work. But it was largely destroyed in 1968 after Tet. Had the USA decided to invade the North, or even land troops in Saigon, there was have been little that the NVA could do about it. They have lot the majority of their troops including veterans and trained officers during the March 68 Tet offensive.
Yes, Vietnam was bombed a lot. And there is a reason why it was bombed so much with few gains. Our military leaders made bad mistakes and separated our military branches. The Army, Air Force, and Navy were all given sectors to bomb, but had large restriction on them and couldn't help anyone else. They were all jealous of each other and their poor handling led to many inefficiencies. They would bomb a factory 5x because it looked good on paper, while it had already been destroyed after the first time.
I reckon you guys should do one about The Troubles next
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM !!!
I’ve been waiting for a new video and was not disappointed
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I love how much detail you guys put in these silly little guys.
Thanks!
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Day off + beer + mitsi's new video = life couldn't get any better.
"The trees are speaking Vietnamese!"
This looks a lot better than your other videos good job on upping the production value
5:31 and bamboo spikes everywhere
The animation is so smooth
3:22 whad he say
A$$
@@submarine001but they didn't censor the f word
c i guess
Must be a kid if ur whining if curse words
@@Morgan_Raccoon tell me when I ever whined