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I would love a Real time History on the Military reform and political shifts that happened post-war and how it leads us into the Modern Military settings or a similar 2 hour piece on the War on terror
I never understood why America didn't realise from the massive French effort and defeat that this was a conflict that couldn't be won by military means.
America was hot off of two world wars where it both got to play with kid gloves compared to the other nations and financially straddle its own alliance, and saw itself as the pre-eminent world power by the time the French left Vietnam, there's no way it wasn't going to try.
After the fall of China to Communism in 1949, America could not allow French prestige to drop in the late Fifties and early Sixties; France at that point was nearly Communist. The threat to post war Europe of a potentially Communist France was real. So the US took this role for them.
You forgot to mention that during the Japanese occupation, Ho Chi Minh had put together a large insurgency to fight the Japanese. During this time the Allies had received news that Japan was planning to invade India, so both Britain and the USA asked Ho Chi Minh if he would assist the Allies with fighting the Japanese. He said he would if they promised two items: Keep the French out of Vietnam after the war and allow Vietnam their rightful independence at the same time. Both Britain and the USA promised both. Consequently, the Brits sent a special unit called the Chindits into Vietnam and the USA a special unit called Merrill's Marauders, both supported locally by Ho Chi Minh's insurgency. They sabotaged and fought the Japanese to the end of the war and helped hold down several divisions, thereby diverting the Japanese plan to invade India. After Japan was defeated the Allies reneged on their promise to Ho Chi Minh and allowed the French to return. In addition, independence was put on the back burner. Ho Chi Minh opposed the return of the French and severely defeated them at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. In addition Vietnam was divided by the Allies, the Soviets getting North Vietnam and the western Allies administering South Vietnam through the USA. These factors helped set up the early ingredients of the cause of the Vietnam War. Thousands of lives lost on both sides, including the killing of civilian populations and the tremendous carnage of the environment through the spraying of agent orange and the dropping of cluster bombs. And the rest is history.
The unique thing about Vietnamese Communists is that they the only communists that got into power by their own struggle agaisnt forreign occupants, not set up by a Communist superpower nor through subversion of a non-communist sovereign state. So Communism became cohesive with patriotism in Vietnam. Is not a coincidence when the so-called "Nationalistic", "Democratic" RVN were filled with former French collaborators. And the ones who fought agaisnt the French were consisted of either Communists and Communist sympathizers.
@@ucnguyenanh9414nếu cộng sản viêt nam không chấp nhận bán Hoàng sa và Trường sa cho Trung quốc thì làm gì thắng được😅. Hãy đọc bản cam kết của Phạm văn đồng ký rồi hả nói chuyện
They was no promise. Read Logevall's Embers of War--there was no promise. As much as the Americans hated French Colonialism, they feared Communism expansion worst.
@geologyandchill: For me the most "awesome" thing about this video was that it described the Tonkin Gulf incident as though it had really happened instead of revealing the truth that it was a lie concocted by McNamara in his imagination, or that it wasn't revealed to be a lie until decades after the Vietnam War had ended. Just as justice delayed is justice denied, a truth withheld is a lie preserved.
@@mrcheese7944: I'd be interested to read your thoughts about what I wrote in my reply if you wrote them in standard English, but I don't read emoticons.
Congratulations to an excellent 2+ hours documentary on the Vietnam War 1955 - 1975. I especially appreaciate that the documentary allowed several sides to witness in quotes and interview segments what really happened. I also appreciated that you dug into the two sideshows Laos and Cambodia, which most American documentaries just pass by as almost forgotten parts of the First and Second Indochina War. I myself was a young 23 year old TV reporter and war correspondent for Swedish TV News, based in Bangkok from 197 onwards,, focusing on the three sideshows Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, I totally agree with your conclusions in the epilogue. You did a great job! I hope many Americans will watch this documentary. It should be shown at all major universities and colleges in the history, polirical science and social science departments.
@JB-yb4wn not yet, I'd love to check it out though This war is so underreported such as the Korean War There is alot of information that we know that isn't being released to the public it seems.
Càng tìm hiểu, càng thấy các cụ nhà mình ngày xưa siêu ghê. Đời đời biết ơn các anh hùng, liệt sĩ đã ngã xuống vì độc lập dân tộc và thống nhất tổ quốc!
Miền Nam Việt Nam muốn độc lập khỏi miền Bắc Việt Nam. Một triệu người đã chạy vào miền Nam vào những năm 1950 để thoát khỏi chủ nghĩa cộng sản. Hồ Chí Minh đã giết hàng trăm ngàn người dân của mình vào thời điểm đó.
@@cyclone8974Considering how the population is a total of 34 million, then it makes sense that most of the population liked or tolerated Ho's government
My dad was born in Vietnam in the 60s he said he remembers seeing dead people burning and that in the jungle one of the ways the Vietnamese could tell when the Americans was close by was by the smell of their aftershave
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Really loving your documentaries!!! Thank you. Even though Canada refused to send troops to Vietnam, 50,000 Canadians went south and volunteered with the US to fight in Vietnam
I very much appreciate your attention to detail on the prelude to the main US involvement in the Vietnam war, you certainly have a gift for making documentaries.
@@marknewton7539: I stand corrected. I admit that I didn't watch the whole video and wrote what I did in anger after the video seemed to be saying that the Tonkin Gulf incident had actually happened.
I’ve had these honor and pleasure of meeting several Vietnam war veterans at my job in the last 13 plus years; however, they’ve retired or moved on in recent years. As a US Navy veteran myself, it’s been an incredible experience to discuss their journey there and back. 🇺🇸☝🏻
I deployed to Iraq with a 1SG who was a Vietnam war vet. 1SG Yakoogi, with the 1st en bn. Funniest man I ever met. They forced him to retire when we got back in Dec 07😢
@@RebelliousEra what could possibly be confusing aside from possibly 1SG? I'm sure even navy guys would recognize the rank, they see marines all the time.
It's always interesting to see how much you can distill a war down to the nuts and bolts. To realize that those 8 years of direct intervention boiled down to a documentary that's less than three hours is both impressive on the part of Real Time History and depressing with the scope of the war. For every second of this video, roughly 6 American soldiers were lost.
I've been listening to your guy's videos while on my break at work, before i go to sleep, while going for a walk. They are so immersive that even without the video and graphics, it is so well explained that you can follow exactly what is happening as it's happening (almost in real time 😉)
38:00 I was a democrat for 15 minutes as a kid. I was a mc’publican for many years. Duped by the corporate media. Now I am a patriot who no longer believes ANY of the corporate oligarchy’s propaganda or anything their bogus uniparty says or does. What’s this have to do with Vietnam? It was Vietnam when the land of the free, home of the brave lost her way. We haven’t rediscovered it yet. Maybe last weeks epic election is the first baby step? I hope so. Almost 59,000 American and 2M Vietnamese souls call out for a new time of justice. We must reform. Or we, like all empires before us, will collapse under our own weight. And if asked many around the world might say “rightfully so.” I love my country. But we must prioritize our moral compass once again lest we be despised by humanity. The human race who cannot understand why the only people who cannot see it…are us.
Many people still don't understand how crazy the Battle Ia Drang was. It was basically our best regiment against theirs. We would not have won without Hal Moore and Hueys.
I understand that my Grandfather was a much kinder and thoughtful man before he had gone overseas. And he was quite literally nothing of the man he once was when he came back to his wife. I've always known how fortunate I was for never having to go to such a place in my lifetime.
And the VC and NVA understood the body count idea very well, even though we killed huge numbers of them we could never find the bodies. They out played our game.
37:28 in 2007 I worked for a big News-Talk radio station in LA. Through the course of my regular duties I met numerous very interesting people. One luncheon I will remember forever. My guest was former PLO. His previous job was building explosives. Deployed against Christians visiting the Holy Land. Like Saul of Tarsus in the Bible. He killed Christians. This gentleman (yes, gentleman) had himself become a Christian many years earlier and was then working in the mission field. The exact same field that was his target in the early 1980’s. His name was Kamal Saleem. He looked at me across the table with black eyes that seemed to peer through the ages. “My friend what the West will never fully and truly understand? You may own all the watches. Every single one. But the Arabs? Arabs own the time.”
@@realtimehistory You guys are the best, regardless of budget. The only real adversary your videos have in terms of depth is the Battlefield series which was produced something like 30 years ago. Keep it up please! History nerds like me appreciate the time you put into these series.
Some of the very important things you missed were that Strategic Hamlets were not "Strategic" they were almost always concentration camps. As per stated the a US report on the conditions of strategic hamlets. Another things was that Deim's brother Nhu was the head of SV secret police. Responsible for mass crackdowns and deaths.
Our 1813 Campaign video was a big flop, so we stopped with that era for a while. But we're going to to do some more 19th century content next year and will probably return to the Napoleonic Wars again.
@@realtimehistory I loved the 1813 video and hope to see the entire "downfall" covered. The parallels with both WW1 and 2 are breathtaking and need to be revealed. "If you build it, they will come" even though a bit more slowly than either you or the algorithm would like!
Some mis information here: 6:00 that was the exaggerate number, there was various estimated numbers from different sources, but evidence only showed close to 5,000 were executed. There weren't even that many landlords. And those executed were not North Vietnamese, they were mostly Hoa Chinese who where former French Henchmen brought to Vietnam during the colonization. The Hoa Chinese control 80% of Vietnam rice market and land before 1954 while working for the French.
Sad part, is Golf of Tonkin never happened which means the U.S would of never even entered... not the only time the U.S citizen has been pulled in by a false flag..
They left out the promises made to Ho Chi Minh if he and his insurgent army helped the Brits and Americans fight the Japanese occupation. Those promises were never to allow the French back into Vietnam after the war and give Vietnam total independence. Not very balanced in my view and in the end total betrayal.
1:02:35 I never heard of a 106mm recoilless rifle. I thought perhaps you mistook a 105 for a 106. I looked it up with an AI search. To wit: The 106mm recoilless rifle, also known as the M40, is a portable, crew-served anti-tank weapon developed by the United States. Although its caliber is often referred to as 106mm, it is actually 105mm, with the 106mm designation intended to prevent confusion with incompatible 105mm ammunition from the earlier M27 recoilless rifle. So we were both right!
They did know it but they were too afraid of defeat until the country itself went to war against the war. It says in the documentary they were afraid of China and being the responsible for the fall of the country to communists.
34:25 Jesse, Your pronunciation of Iroquois (ii-ruh-kwa) is correct by Canadian standards, but all the US Army chopper pilots I knew called it the Huey. If they said Iroquois, they pronounced it ii-ruh-koy. PS A friend of mine commanded a squadron of Army helicopters, a mix of Hueys and OH-58s. The official name of the OH-58 was the Kiowa, but everybody in the squadron called it the Little Bird. My friend let me ride along on a lieutenant's checkride in an OH-58. After the LT completed his checkride, the WO swapped me into the pilot's seat and I got to fly the bird. Fun. I had no problems flying the bird in motion, but I failed to hover steady. Takes practice.
@@thatguythedude1563 No, I am not wrong. I accept that you pronounce Iroquois correctly, but US Army chopper pilots called it ii-ruh-koy when they used the official name -- which was almost never. Maybe they were wrong, but that is how they pronounced it. Mostly they avoided Iroquois. They called it Huey.
@@hlynnkeith9334you are actually 100% correct…they called them Hueys. My father was a 1st Lieutenant in Vietnam…& he has actually written a couple books about his experiences in the war. When I was younger…I actually spent 5 weeks in Vietnam with him. We flew into Hanoi…& drove all the way down south to Saigon…(Ho Chi Min City).
Born in 1955, I grew up as a "news junkie" throughout this period. What you have presented is nothing new to me. Still, your presentation is a useful review of the period.
@@joshjwillway1545 An aware person had to keep their eyes open and their head "on a swivel". I remember watching Uncle Martin's speech at the Lincoln Memorial. There were all these guys wearing paper hats. Still, "judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin" really stuck in my mind. Now, the "woke"/DEI crowd says that I'm "racist" for believing in racial equality. I am the staff armed guard at a large, Black church, willing to die to protect my family on any given sunday. Our world is upside down.
Still remember the “ Napalm Girl ” photo concerning the War in Vietnam ? This helped a lot to end the US War in Vietnam . This photo was taken in June 8 , 1972 . In case you will visit Vietnam in the near future , please try to arrange a visit to the Handicapped Handicraft Factory and buy some souvenirs there . Many workers there are the victims of Agent Orange and their offsprings , who were born handicapped as well . It is sad that US is still waging Wars around the World after 50 years 😥 😯 !
Because the US believed somebody was as smart as Henry K. who was considered "best of the best", got Ph.D from Harward, a political scientist, and with many many other intelligent cabinet members through 4-5 presidential administrations could easily beat a bunch of North Vietnamese leaders who were rice farmers, dish washer, teacher...etc This was a very humbling lesson for the most powerful country on the planet earth. 🙏
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Người Việt Nam chúng tôi có lòng tự hào dân tộc và tình yêu nước vô cùng to lớn. Henry K. vênh váo nói rằng tôi có bằng giáo sự, Ngài Lê Đức Thọ còn nói rằng: Con tôi có bằng tiến sỹ. Kakak
My grandfather fight in the Vietnam war to chase away the French and American away from their one world order ideology. And he is true from what we see today. What a great vision he and his generation have. 🎉
I'm not going to lie when it comes to the section on the Tet offensive I feel like you guys should have covered a few more battles because the battle for Hue was not even the worst. I do think that was a bit of a miss
The Tonkin Gulf incident remained well concealed lie for decades after the Vietnam War had ended; it never happened and was nothing more than the creation of McNamara's imagination; please don't take my word for this, look it up; there is an excellent video about this right here on TH-cam. The Vietnam War wasn't fought to stop the spread of communism, and, ultimately didn't, but for nothing more than the financial benefit of the American Military Industrial Complex. The Vietnam War not only to provided the American Military Industrial Complex with a huge market for their goods, but with a real war in which to test them, and those people couldn't care less about how many thousands of lives were lost in that testing. It was for that alone that at least 58,000 Americans came home in body bags and three to four times as many came back with major, serious bodily injuries (loss of arms, legs, sight, PTSD, etc.) which pretty much ruined what was left of their lives. And let's not forget about the horrifying effects of the use of agent orange, not just on our own troops years after the war was over, but on the civilian population of Vietnam.
@@breakznentaTrue but much lower intensity combat overall. Very few got into regular combat in those wars. I personally only saw sporadic gunfire, mostly just IED's and a few wild zingers that never hit anything. 1 time I was in a legit sustained gunfight in 30 months. I went out daily though.
@@PorkChopAChunky ya agreed. Would agree that Afghanistan and Vietnam turned out to be very similar wars in duration , gorilla style tactics and well the ex filtration think helicopters at the embassy vs the scenes at the airport. The only thing dissimilar was the NVA and larger battles
WAR IS A RACKET . Book by Smedly D Butler . Two. Times Medal of Honor Marine recipient. . He regrettably concluded after a long and honorable military career that the bottom line in many wars is that they’re very profitable for Banks , Weapon manufacturers and world leaders . None that are in harms way. Not a scratch on them .
Check out the two guys in shorts at 24:51. Training film I suspect. I had that duty myself a number of times when training around rivers and other bodies of water where there was a chance heavily burdened troopers might drown.
@@jayryan1956 3 minutes long? I've had entire Poker Stars Tournaments masquerade as an add that can be hours long, thats not an add it's a forced watching of something I didn't choose too watch
The way the Vietnam War went for the US largely resembles the way the Afghanistan War went for the US years later. Lol. I'm assuming there was no way for anyone to know what tactics the Taliban would use, but if there was any idea that, considering the terrain, and the defeat of the Soviet Union in the same area, it would be even just slightly similar to the tactics used in Veitnam, somebody could have possibly prevented or lessened the number of troops lost in Afghanistan
@@SkanzoolNot really the French have a poor war record, the Algerians didn't have guns for those 150 years but the second they did the French got kicked out.
I've nearly finished Max Hasting's epic 2018 story of the Vietnam conflict which, while it has one or two perhaps-inevitable limitations, is generally brilliant. But, I have to say, although it's obviously a different communication mode, this is even better. "Magnificent" would my adjective of choice.
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I would love a Real time History on the Military reform and political shifts that happened post-war and how it leads us into the Modern Military settings or a similar 2 hour piece on the War on terror
Semper Fidelis, 3:17 ...
Fail, how could you leave out the Gulf of Tonkin incident? Kinda a big part in how the U.S. got dragged into this shitstorm.
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I never understood why America didn't realise from the massive French effort and defeat that this was a conflict that couldn't be won by military means.
America was hot off of two world wars where it both got to play with kid gloves compared to the other nations and financially straddle its own alliance, and saw itself as the pre-eminent world power by the time the French left Vietnam, there's no way it wasn't going to try.
Seriously..? It all stems from Truman and De Gaulle's 5th republic. Besides Johnson was a slave to the military industrial complex.
Ego and pride
Population Control War
After the fall of China to Communism in 1949, America could not allow French prestige to drop in the late Fifties and early Sixties; France at that point was nearly Communist. The threat to post war Europe of a potentially Communist France was real. So the US took this role for them.
You forgot to mention that during the Japanese occupation, Ho Chi Minh had put together a large insurgency to fight the Japanese. During this time the Allies had received news that Japan was planning to invade India, so both Britain and the USA asked Ho Chi Minh if he would assist the Allies with fighting the Japanese. He said he would if they promised two items: Keep the French out of Vietnam after the war and allow Vietnam their rightful independence at the same time. Both Britain and the USA promised both. Consequently, the Brits sent a special unit called the Chindits into Vietnam and the USA a special unit called Merrill's Marauders, both supported locally by Ho Chi Minh's insurgency. They sabotaged and fought the Japanese to the end of the war and helped hold down several divisions, thereby diverting the Japanese plan to invade India.
After Japan was defeated the Allies reneged on their promise to Ho Chi Minh and allowed the French to return. In addition, independence was put on the back burner. Ho Chi Minh opposed the return of the French and severely defeated them at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. In addition Vietnam was divided by the Allies, the Soviets getting North Vietnam and the western Allies administering South Vietnam through the USA. These factors helped set up the early ingredients of the cause of the Vietnam War.
Thousands of lives lost on both sides, including the killing of civilian populations and the tremendous carnage of the environment through the spraying of agent orange and the dropping of cluster bombs. And the rest is history.
The unique thing about Vietnamese Communists is that they the only communists that got into power by their own struggle agaisnt forreign occupants, not set up by a Communist superpower nor through subversion of a non-communist sovereign state. So Communism became cohesive with patriotism in Vietnam. Is not a coincidence when the so-called "Nationalistic", "Democratic" RVN were filled with former French collaborators. And the ones who fought agaisnt the French were consisted of either Communists and Communist sympathizers.
@@ucnguyenanh9414nếu cộng sản viêt nam không chấp nhận bán Hoàng sa và Trường sa cho Trung quốc thì làm gì thắng được😅. Hãy đọc bản cam kết của Phạm văn đồng ký rồi hả nói chuyện
@@ucnguyenanh9414 Them and the Yugoslavs
Now I understand the whole problem better.
They was no promise. Read Logevall's Embers of War--there was no promise. As much as the Americans hated French Colonialism, they feared Communism expansion worst.
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Love these detailed videos of all conflicts. This is the way
almost 3 hours of free amazing documentary!!! thank you so much, this is awesome!
@geologyandchill: For me the most "awesome" thing about this video was that it described the Tonkin Gulf incident as though it had really happened instead of revealing the truth that it was a lie concocted by McNamara in his imagination, or that it wasn't revealed to be a lie until decades after the Vietnam War had ended.
Just as justice delayed is justice denied, a truth withheld is a lie preserved.
Almost 4 hours if we include adds 🥹
You should check out “The Vietnam War” by Ken Burns, 10 part 18hour documentary!!! Really in depth and interesting.
@@Merlinever😮😮😅 19:59
@@mrcheese7944: I'd be interested to read your thoughts about what I wrote in my reply if you wrote them in standard English, but I don't read emoticons.
Alright almost 3 hours let’s go!
Facts im so tired of 3 min videos and all of the shorts
Congratulations to an excellent 2+ hours documentary on the Vietnam War 1955 - 1975. I especially appreaciate that the documentary allowed several sides to witness in quotes and interview segments what really happened. I also appreciated that you dug into the two sideshows Laos and Cambodia, which most American documentaries just pass by as almost forgotten parts of the First and Second Indochina War. I myself was a young 23 year old TV reporter and war correspondent for Swedish TV News, based in Bangkok from 197 onwards,, focusing on the three sideshows Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, I totally agree with your conclusions in the epilogue. You did a great job! I hope many Americans will watch this documentary. It should be shown at all major universities and colleges in the history, polirical science and social science departments.
The Vietnam War stories never get old!
That is because Vietnam is all about corruption and that is stilla thing to this day.
Valeu!
This is the best coverage I've ever seen of vietnam war and I've seen a bunch.
Have you seen "The 10,000 Day War" series?
@JB-yb4wn not yet, I'd love to check it out though
This war is so underreported such as the Korean War
There is alot of information that we know that isn't being released to the public it seems.
@@tylermorrison420
There is an excellent Korean war series going on right now with indie nydel.
Do see Ken Burns documentary series on this conflict. I’ve watched it twice!!
Quality first!
The effort that this channel puts into its documentaries and videos is felt, thank you for the great information!
Amazing content! Thank you so much for this!
Such a great video! Thanks for your incredible effort! What's your plan for the next year?
I haven't looked at our production planner today, but I'm pretty sure it's world domination.
Sometimes it's wild to think that most important part of human history is actually wars. Most geopolitical map is based on them.
Càng tìm hiểu, càng thấy các cụ nhà mình ngày xưa siêu ghê. Đời đời biết ơn các anh hùng, liệt sĩ đã ngã xuống vì độc lập dân tộc và thống nhất tổ quốc!
Do Viet Cong, khong hieu tai sao nguoi viet di giet nguoi viet.
Miền Nam Việt Nam muốn độc lập khỏi miền Bắc Việt Nam. Một triệu người đã chạy vào miền Nam vào những năm 1950 để thoát khỏi chủ nghĩa cộng sản. Hồ Chí Minh đã giết hàng trăm ngàn người dân của mình vào thời điểm đó.
@@cyclone8974Considering how the population is a total of 34 million, then it makes sense that most of the population liked or tolerated Ho's government
@@cyclone8974 không có CIA thì Diệm đã chết ở cái nhà nguyện nào đó bên trời Âu chứ không phải trong thùng xe quân sự. "Miền Nam" là "miền Nam" nào?
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I am a serious student of The Vietnam Conflict and this is the best overall.program I have seen.
LOL
My dad was born in Vietnam in the 60s he said he remembers seeing dead people burning and that in the jungle one of the ways the Vietnamese could tell when the Americans was close by was by the smell of their aftershave
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Wow, this is a brilliantly produced documentary which provides as much as detail as possible in under 3 hours. I will be watching more than once!
Really loving your documentaries!!! Thank you. Even though Canada refused to send troops to Vietnam, 50,000 Canadians went south and volunteered with the US to fight in Vietnam
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I very much appreciate your attention to detail on the prelude to the main US involvement in the Vietnam war, you certainly have a gift for making documentaries.
Another fantastic documentary, absolutely love it!
@jasonniffen3043: "Another fantastic documentary.."
Except for the lies about the Tonkin Gu[f incident being true.
@@Merlinever We literally say it didn't happen at 22:10. "There was no attack on August 4th"
@@marknewton7539: I stand corrected. I admit that I didn't watch the whole video and wrote what I did in anger after the video seemed to be saying that the Tonkin Gulf incident had actually happened.
I’ve had these honor and pleasure of meeting several Vietnam war veterans at my job in the last 13 plus years; however, they’ve retired or moved on in recent years. As a US Navy veteran myself, it’s been an incredible experience to discuss their journey there and back.
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I deployed to Iraq with a 1SG who was a Vietnam war vet. 1SG Yakoogi, with the 1st en bn. Funniest man I ever met. They forced him to retire when we got back in Dec 07😢
@@PorkChopAChunky that guy has no clue what any of that means
@@RebelliousEra what could possibly be confusing aside from possibly 1SG? I'm sure even navy guys would recognize the rank, they see marines all the time.
@@RebelliousEraAT EASE
The fall of South Vietnam to the Communists and the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban have eerie parallels.
now watch ekreine
They should have fell to the racist right, right?
@@nonono88no different circumstances, and totally different beliefs involved in the Ukraine vs Russian war.
@@mikeosgood3846 guess it depends whom do you believe
20 years in each war if you really want to be eerier
I have watched every doc on every war and this guy tells me something new
Omg you saved my day with this video
It's always interesting to see how much you can distill a war down to the nuts and bolts. To realize that those 8 years of direct intervention boiled down to a documentary that's less than three hours is both impressive on the part of Real Time History and depressing with the scope of the war.
For every second of this video, roughly 6 American soldiers were lost.
I've been listening to your guy's videos while on my break at work, before i go to sleep, while going for a walk. They are so immersive that even without the video and graphics, it is so well explained that you can follow exactly what is happening as it's happening (almost in real time 😉)
Thanks!
"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves!" LBJ
38:00 I was a democrat for 15 minutes as a kid. I was a mc’publican for many years. Duped by the corporate media. Now I am a patriot who no longer believes ANY of the corporate oligarchy’s propaganda or anything their bogus uniparty says or does. What’s this have to do with Vietnam? It was Vietnam when the land of the free, home of the brave lost her way. We haven’t rediscovered it yet. Maybe last weeks epic election is the first baby step? I hope so. Almost 59,000 American and 2M Vietnamese souls call out for a new time of justice. We must reform. Or we, like all empires before us, will collapse under our own weight. And if asked many around the world might say “rightfully so.” I love my country. But we must prioritize our moral compass once again lest we be despised by humanity. The human race who cannot understand why the only people who cannot see it…are us.
Superb documentary! Cant wait to watch your others
Many people still don't understand how crazy the Battle Ia Drang was.
It was basically our best regiment against theirs. We would not have won without Hal Moore and Hueys.
Vietnam is a sore spot for me and my family. We lost 2, plus 3 wounded in that Damm war!
I understand that my Grandfather was a much kinder and thoughtful man before he had gone overseas. And he was quite literally nothing of the man he once was when he came back to his wife. I've always known how fortunate I was for never having to go to such a place in my lifetime.
And the VC and NVA understood the body count idea very well, even though we killed huge numbers of them we could never find the bodies. They out played our game.
The more I watch foreign docs about the wars, the more I admire the wisdom & strength & sacrifice of the golden generations whom liberated Việt Nam
Excellent..well done 👍👏...definitely appreciate the wide approach to the subject
This an absolutely amazing and thorough documentary. Thank you!
Awesome channel!
Only a few people know we supported Ho Chi Minh, but we turned our back on him. Study your history.
37:28 in 2007 I worked for a big News-Talk radio station in LA. Through the course of my regular duties I met numerous very interesting people. One luncheon I will remember forever. My guest was former PLO. His previous job was building explosives. Deployed against Christians visiting the Holy Land. Like Saul of Tarsus in the Bible. He killed Christians. This gentleman (yes, gentleman) had himself become a Christian many years earlier and was then working in the mission field. The exact same field that was his target in the early 1980’s. His name was Kamal Saleem. He looked at me across the table with black eyes that seemed to peer through the ages. “My friend what the West will never fully and truly understand? You may own all the watches. Every single one. But the Arabs? Arabs own the time.”
This is some top quality material, excellent documentary👌 better than most TV productions
Great documentary! Thank you for including the Hmong during this period.
Bookmarked for watching later :). Looking forward to it!
A 2 hour documentary thank you 🙏❤
How many adverts do you need on your videos!?
Fantastic long form video. 10/10.
I love love this channel but nothing beats the 10 part series about the Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
would love to get the budget that Ken Burns has for his projects. I think we produced our series with 0.1% of the money he had for his series.
Search Battlefield Vietnam. Im still trying to figure out the music
@@realtimehistoryfacts haha.
Absolutely.
@@realtimehistory You guys are the best, regardless of budget. The only real adversary your videos have in terms of depth is the Battlefield series which was produced something like 30 years ago. Keep it up please! History nerds like me appreciate the time you put into these series.
Excellent, excellent documentary!! I was intrigued by it and glued to it throughout.
I wish more people appreciated history. Otherwise we are doomed to repeat it
Great in depth analysis of the conflict taking in Laos and Cambodia that some others forget.
Fantastic video, really informative.
Some of the very important things you missed were that Strategic Hamlets were not "Strategic" they were almost always concentration camps. As per stated the a US report on the conditions of strategic hamlets. Another things was that Deim's brother Nhu was the head of SV secret police. Responsible for mass crackdowns and deaths.
Great stuff 👍
I hope I never have to fight in war
I have the total opposite in desires
@@Mal0Imperzialmao!!!!!
Will there be more Napoleonic wars documentaries? I was hoping you would do one about the war of the fourth coalition at some point.
Our 1813 Campaign video was a big flop, so we stopped with that era for a while. But we're going to to do some more 19th century content next year and will probably return to the Napoleonic Wars again.
@@realtimehistory I loved the 1813 video and hope to see the entire "downfall" covered. The parallels with both WW1 and 2 are breathtaking and need to be revealed. "If you build it, they will come" even though a bit more slowly than either you or the algorithm would like!
@@realtimehistoryit wasnt a flop. Keep up the great work!!!!!
@realtimehistory really? I loved that content. Such a shame.
Some mis information here:
6:00 that was the exaggerate number, there was various estimated numbers from different sources, but evidence only showed close to 5,000 were executed. There weren't even that many landlords. And those executed were not North Vietnamese, they were mostly Hoa Chinese who where former French Henchmen brought to Vietnam during the colonization. The Hoa Chinese control 80% of Vietnam rice market and land before 1954 while working for the French.
Sad part, is Golf of Tonkin never happened which means the U.S would of never even entered... not the only time the U.S citizen has been pulled in by a false flag..
This is the best History channel by far. First class information, presentation, balance of both sides and well researched and appropriate images.
They left out the promises made to Ho Chi Minh if he and his insurgent army helped the Brits and Americans fight the Japanese occupation. Those promises were never to allow the French back into Vietnam after the war and give Vietnam total independence. Not very balanced in my view and in the end total betrayal.
1:02:35 I never heard of a 106mm recoilless rifle. I thought perhaps you mistook a 105 for a 106. I looked it up with an AI search. To wit:
The 106mm recoilless rifle, also known as the M40, is a portable, crew-served anti-tank weapon developed by the United States. Although its caliber is often referred to as 106mm, it is actually 105mm, with the 106mm designation intended to prevent confusion with incompatible 105mm ammunition from the earlier M27 recoilless rifle.
So we were both right!
If you are ever in Oklahoma City the 45th infantry museum has one on display. Along with every weapon and gadgets used in every American war.
A concise and thorough and honest history of the conflict. Thank you.
Awesome video!!! Thanks for concisely packing it all into under three hours, I can dig into specifics from here :)
They did know it but they were too afraid of defeat until the country itself went to war against the war. It says in the documentary they were afraid of China and being the responsible for the fall of the country to communists.
34:25 Jesse, Your pronunciation of Iroquois (ii-ruh-kwa) is correct by Canadian standards, but all the US Army chopper pilots I knew called it the Huey. If they said Iroquois, they pronounced it ii-ruh-koy.
PS A friend of mine commanded a squadron of Army helicopters, a mix of Hueys and OH-58s. The official name of the OH-58 was the Kiowa, but everybody in the squadron called it the Little Bird. My friend let me ride along on a lieutenant's checkride in an OH-58. After the LT completed his checkride, the WO swapped me into the pilot's seat and I got to fly the bird. Fun. I had no problems flying the bird in motion, but I failed to hover steady. Takes practice.
i am actually iroquois and ur still wrong
@@thatguythedude1563 No, I am not wrong. I accept that you pronounce Iroquois correctly, but US Army chopper pilots called it ii-ruh-koy when they used the official name -- which was almost never. Maybe they were wrong, but that is how they pronounced it. Mostly they avoided Iroquois. They called it Huey.
@@hlynnkeith9334you are actually 100% correct…they called them Hueys. My father was a 1st Lieutenant in Vietnam…& he has actually written a couple books about his experiences in the war. When I was younger…I actually spent 5 weeks in Vietnam with him. We flew into Hanoi…& drove all the way down south to Saigon…(Ho Chi Min City).
Born in 1955, I grew up as a "news junkie" throughout this period. What you have presented is nothing new to me. Still, your presentation is a useful review of the period.
If you don't mind me asking, what was it like growing up in a period of such rapid change?
@@joshjwillway1545 An aware person had to keep their eyes open and their head "on a swivel". I remember watching Uncle Martin's speech at the Lincoln Memorial. There were all these guys wearing paper hats. Still, "judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin" really stuck in my mind. Now, the "woke"/DEI crowd says that I'm "racist" for believing in racial equality. I am the staff armed guard at a large, Black church, willing to die to protect my family on any given sunday. Our world is upside down.
I'm just into part 2 here, but I have to say, well done. This is intelligent, nuanced, and truthful - excellent.
And as a PS to that,having got to the end, all told: truly excellent, gets highest level of recommendation.
Still remember the “ Napalm Girl ” photo concerning the War in Vietnam ? This helped
a lot to end the US War in Vietnam . This photo was taken in June 8 , 1972 .
In case you will visit Vietnam in the near future , please try to arrange a visit to the
Handicapped Handicraft Factory and buy some souvenirs there . Many workers there
are the victims of Agent Orange and their offsprings , who were born handicapped as well .
It is sad that US is still waging Wars around the World after 50 years 😥 😯 !
Because the US believed somebody was as smart as Henry K. who was considered "best of the best", got Ph.D from Harward, a political scientist, and with many many other intelligent cabinet members through 4-5 presidential administrations could easily beat a bunch of North Vietnamese leaders who were rice farmers, dish washer, teacher...etc This was a very humbling lesson for the most powerful country on the planet earth. 🙏
Người Việt Nam chúng tôi có lòng tự hào dân tộc và tình yêu nước vô cùng to lớn. Henry K. vênh váo nói rằng tôi có bằng giáo sự, Ngài Lê Đức Thọ còn nói rằng: Con tôi có bằng tiến sỹ. Kakak
90% of kids my age in the 1960 ssss didn't even know where Vietnam was located at.yet 30%% were volunteers .
Brilliant documentary thank you 😊
Love this, thanks bro. Very nice job on grow and content
Great video!
This was very interesting and Helpful in understanding the Vietnam 🇻🇳 War 😮 Thanks for putting this on for us to view 👍👌
My grandfather fight in the Vietnam war to chase away the French and American away from their one world order ideology. And he is true from what we see today. What a great vision he and his generation have. 🎉
I'm not going to lie when it comes to the section on the Tet offensive I feel like you guys should have covered a few more battles because the battle for Hue was not even the worst. I do think that was a bit of a miss
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amazing documentary
34:34 one of the guys getting off the huey eats it and goes head over heels into the brush.
Happens often. Soldiers are top heavy on insertion. Once the 80ish pds starts pulling its over😂
Westmorelands ultimate personal goal was to be declared a theatre commander so he could push for a fifth star.
The Tonkin Gulf incident remained well concealed lie for decades after the Vietnam War had ended; it never happened and was nothing more than the creation of McNamara's imagination; please don't take my word for this, look it up; there is an excellent video about this right here on TH-cam.
The Vietnam War wasn't fought to stop the spread of communism, and, ultimately didn't, but for nothing more than the financial benefit of the American Military Industrial Complex.
The Vietnam War not only to provided the American Military Industrial Complex with a huge market for their goods, but with a real war in which to test them, and those people couldn't care less about how many thousands of lives were lost in that testing.
It was for that alone that at least 58,000 Americans came home in body bags and three to four times as many came back with major, serious bodily injuries (loss of arms, legs, sight, PTSD, etc.) which pretty much ruined what was left of their lives.
And let's not forget about the horrifying effects of the use of agent orange, not just on our own troops years after the war was over, but on the civilian population of Vietnam.
Just the span of years covered is insane. Anyone else think about 20 years of war in the modern period...
GWOT was/is longer
@@breakznentaTrue but much lower intensity combat overall. Very few got into regular combat in those wars. I personally only saw sporadic gunfire, mostly just IED's and a few wild zingers that never hit anything. 1 time I was in a legit sustained gunfight in 30 months. I went out daily though.
@@PorkChopAChunky ya agreed. Would agree that Afghanistan and Vietnam turned out to be very similar wars in duration , gorilla style tactics and well the ex filtration think helicopters at the embassy vs the scenes at the airport. The only thing dissimilar was the NVA and larger battles
@@PorkChopAChunky and one more thing … thank you for your service !
WAR IS A RACKET . Book by Smedly D Butler . Two. Times Medal of Honor Marine recipient. .
He regrettably concluded after a long and honorable military career that the bottom line in many wars is that they’re very profitable for Banks , Weapon manufacturers and world leaders . None that are in harms way. Not a scratch on them .
Check out the two guys in shorts at 24:51. Training film I suspect. I had that duty myself a number of times when training around rivers and other bodies of water where there was a chance heavily burdened troopers might drown.
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It should be illegal to advertise any adds before the first 5 minutes of any video
Why are adds 3 minutes long now this makes it miserable trying to listen while falling asleep
@@jayryan1956 3 minutes long? I've had entire Poker Stars Tournaments masquerade as an add that can be hours long, thats not an add it's a forced watching of something I didn't choose too watch
The way the Vietnam War went for the US largely resembles the way the Afghanistan War went for the US years later. Lol. I'm assuming there was no way for anyone to know what tactics the Taliban would use, but if there was any idea that, considering the terrain, and the defeat of the Soviet Union in the same area, it would be even just slightly similar to the tactics used in Veitnam, somebody could have possibly prevented or lessened the number of troops lost in Afghanistan
im sorry if i get this wrong, but is the voice actor a certain someone that did "inside tanks" for WoT?
no, Jesse hasn't done any work for World of Tanks
Read "One February Morning" by a helicopter door gunner to get an idea what that insanity was like.
The French didn't learn anything from Indochina. After they had been kicked out there, they tried the same game in Algeria with the same outcome
And Algeria has been an outcast for decades.
@GUITARTIME2024 Why outcast?
Outpost?
Algeria?? Do you even know what you're talking about? France had been in Algeria for 130 years. It was effectively their country.
@@SkanzoolNot really the French have a poor war record, the Algerians didn't have guns for those 150 years but the second they did the French got kicked out.
This is what i needed ......thanks RTH and a very happy halloween
Vietnam syndrome has been replaced by Afghanistan idiocy 😂
If the Anzacs aren't mentioned then your documentary is missing over half it's content...
we have an extra chapter for the non-US and non-Vietnamese armies
That would be marvelous @@realtimehistory
Well that was a fantastic documentary.
I've just read a short history book by Gordon Kerr, so thank you for this video as it's nice to see a video ❤
You are the best thank you so much.
I've nearly finished Max Hasting's epic 2018 story of the Vietnam conflict which, while it has one or two perhaps-inevitable limitations, is generally brilliant. But, I have to say, although it's obviously a different communication mode, this is even better. "Magnificent" would my adjective of choice.
Shout out to those Ozzies they sound like incredible combatants
Great doc Mr. Alexander, thanks. Its been years since I learned new facts from a Viet war documentary!
Thanks!
Thank you
“The Vietnam war” By Ken Burns is a must watch for anyone interested in this conflict. 18hours long!!!
The new world is youtube makers that are not academics, but this guy has worked hard for this vid 👍