When was Vietnam? forty years ago or so? ..hasn't anything changed?
Well, actually, what is going on now is classic CIA circa '50's and '60's. It is in the book and, while it was written in the '70's by L. Fletcher Prouty, his CIA background and explaination nails the Vietnam War. I was there right before he wrote the book and saw it with my very eyes.
Let your mind wander with me for a few moments. Try to picture what I will be talking about. Put yourself in picture and look at what is going on around you.
You live in a village. You raise rice and catch fish from the river about a mile away. You have no real education to speak of other than what you learn from the elders of the village. That is pretty much your life. There are no cars. No motorcycles, no horses. You and generations of other of your villagers live your entire lives and travel no farther from your home than you can walk carrying the food you will need for the round trip. In our terms, that pretty much means you and yours have been limited to about 25-50 miles in any direction.
There are explorer types who grow up and leave but they usually never return. Now expand the scale to an entire country of peoples who do not travel per se and you have oddities like dialects. Your language is customized to your village. The next village, a two day walk, has some minor differences but you can still communicate when you have to. The next village over from them is even more different and the next even more. After you get about a hundred miles or so away, the dialects are so different that understanding is completely lost.
Now move 100,000 armed refugees from 300 or 500 miles away into your area. No food. No money. Can't speak your language. But they have guns and children to feed and you have food.............
Now wrap your head around they were sent there. Forced to uproot and run by people who have other more worldly designs on your homeland.
