Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
"conducting operations" what the fuck does that have to do with anything?The French were conducting and are conducting operations in Africa to this day. You didn't hear about that time they intervened in Mali did you?
Learn to multi quote, learn to post in general really. What the fuck are you trying to ask? Did you forget that Iraq once had the world's fourth biggest military and we rolled straight over it?Source, or are you just making shit up? There is a lot of scholarly work on the subject, more than I can summarize here. I'm guessing your engaging in nationalist chest thumping, which is all fine and good but should not be confused with serious historical understanding.
The US army clobbered the shit out of the NVA rather contemptuously, check our KD on that one fernando.Tell that to the veterans who fought from 1965 to 1975. Or did you sleep through that part of history class? South Vietnam didn't win, and who backed the South?