Funny. I recall massive casualties in the Tet offensive, and Hue being a siege. A shorter siege.. The VC didn't have the firepower the Iraqi's have... But still a siege.MKSheppard wrote:Oh yeah, they also did that without airpower or artillery support,MKSheppard wrote: Tell that to the US Marine Corps who took Hue, in Tet 1968, massacring
the VietCong and only suffering minimal casualties
since the higher ups had decreed that they didn't want to level
the city. And the Marines re-took it anyway with minimal casualties.
w00tage, indeed.
Fucking A...Basra not cleared because of Brits' laziness
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