Quote Originally Posted by webwurm99
I see your point Dalek, and you cant really blame the troops. The soldiers should be kept alive if possible. The point I was trying to make is the degree of the "comfort factor". In the house to house raids for example, there is usually a large group of well equipped soldiers kicking in someones door, while they eat dinner. This IMO is not hand to hand, and the comfort level is still huge. The troops in Vietnam may have shot blindly over bunkers, but they didn't whine that jeeps didn't have enough armor. While I don't blame the "troopers" I do blame the whole of the military. Imagine in 10 years if we have to fight China. They are growing quickly into a superpower, so I cant see it being avoided. How do you think our troops will fare against a LARGE, well equipped army? I don't see it going well for our guys.
I do actually, quite well. Even in 10 years, I strongly doubt the Chinese Navy/Airforce/Missle Systems will be on parr with the United States of America. That will certainly be where any conflict between the two nations occurs if it ever will (extremely doubtful). China is growing rapidly, but growing economically is (oddly enough) not directly communicable to parrallel military growth. I find it doubtful that too many western countries are going to make it easy for China to purchase the latest weaponry. On that note, R&D takes a very long time.

Besides, if it came to a ground war with China (assuming that it would be on their soil), it simply wouldn't happen until the numbers looked feasible. Regardless of that, why do you think the United States is being so friendly with India? Also, I'm very certain that the troops in Vietnam had lots of problems with how/why the war was being fought. There isn't a doubt in my mind about soliders complaining about inadequate training/equipment. However, the media that existed then is not the media that exists today, nor was the military (in terms of dissention being permissible).