Re: When was the turning point in technology's impact on war?

From: William Black (abuse_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:16:09 -0000

"Tiger" <Lana_sands@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41FA889D.7030207@hotmail.com...

> Well yes &no. The VC may have been bare bones. But the NVA was being
> equiped with top line MIG's, SAM's, tanks, and AAA.

You're saying that equipment produced by the USSR, including the MiG 19,
used so effectively, were all superior to US equipment of the time?

So what second hand Korean war vintage fighters were the US using?

We're talking about an army whose main battle tank in 1970 was the T-34 and
whose main supply vehicle was the bicycle.

I've heard some reasonably deranged excuses for the thrashing the US got in
Vietnam, but being defeated by superior technology is the most bonkers yet. 

-- 
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Barbeques on fire by chalets past the headland
I've watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off Newborough
All this will pass like ice-cream on the beach
Time for tea

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