Dave Herbal
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The odds of being involved in war throughout history are probably pretty minuscule tbh.You only get 1 life, I cant believe how lucky I am to never have been involved in war and killed at the age 18.
The mind boggles
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The odds of being involved in war throughout history are probably pretty minuscule tbh.You only get 1 life, I cant believe how lucky I am to never have been involved in war and killed at the age 18.
The mind boggles
Read a piece by an ex Vietcong fighter - he said they were more worried about tigers in the jungle than Enemy soldiers. Loads of them got eaten or mauled.
The odds of being involved in war throughout history are probably pretty minuscule tbh.
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We will never know but from my understanding the Vietnamese were fed up of foreign involvement (France, Japan) also Chinese interests, then USA. They just wanted independence and rallied behind communism/Ho Chi Minh even if they weren’t politically motivated.If South Vietnam had won and the country was eventually reunited under a non communist system Vietnam today would be a much richer and prosperous country similiar to South Korea,Japan and Hong Kong in terms of economic development.
We will never know but from my understanding the Vietnamese were fed up of foreign involvement (France, Japan) also Chinese interests, then USA. They just wanted independence and rallied behind communism/Ho Chi Minh even if they weren’t politically motivated.
This man is interesting too.That the bloke who left a trail of devastation behind?
The odds of being involved in war throughout history are probably pretty minuscule tbh.
On a day out to see a Vietnamese coffee harvest we got talking about the amount of mopeds on the roads.We will never know but from my understanding the Vietnamese were fed up of foreign involvement (France, Japan) also Chinese interests, then USA. They just wanted independence and rallied behind communism/Ho Chi Minh even if they weren’t politically motivated.
I would think so. Let’s look at the UK. How many wars have we had that involved conscriptionYou Reckon?
Id have said the opposite- interesting to find out the answer.
Cheers
Ok, I’ve crunched the numbers. Using the last 200 years, as we have records for that: Let’s say for arguments sake that 300,000 men are born in the UK every year.You Reckon?
Id have said the opposite- interesting to find out the answer.
Cheers
I would think so. Let’s look at the UK. How many wars have we had that involved conscription
Ok, I’ve crunched the numbers. Using the last 200 years, as we have records for that: Let’s say for arguments sake that 300,000 men are born in the UK every year.
so that’s 60 million men in 200 years.
The entire death toll of UK personnel in every war since 1815 is 1.5 million.
So on average you’ve had a 2.5% chance of dying. But a lot of those were professional soldiers who were there by choice, so that’s going to bring the odds of a civilian being called up and dying down a fraction I would have thought. So maybe a 2% then? Odds of 50/1 don’t seem that bad.
I saw a documentary about the massacre on the pbs channel, unbelievable.Before the Americans had gone in The French used a group of ex-SS soldiers to go into villages and burn them down and round up civilians. Incredible how they could do that when only a few years earlier the SS were doing that to French citizens.
How Charlie company led by William Calley got of virtually scott free for the My Lai massacre still baffles me to this day.
It`s amazing how there is always money to fight wars on the other side of the world yet anyone asks for free health care and education and they`re called communists.
yet englanders go mad when an EU is mentionedYou should watch Dirty Wars. The things the USA has done are mind boggling.
I'm honestly not arsed about your opinion.
Oh aye, I’m sure they rounded up anyone they could. But there were also a lot less people back then, so less a chance of escaping it. We also still have it in our heads that once you go off to war, that’s it. When in reality most people make it home again.Interesting.
Middle Ages, crusades and in the days of genghis, Caesar etc must have been hard to avoid war or living somewhere without invasion.
they dont get on,same with the cambodians,great fighters though and repelled a chinnese attack while sorting out pol pots rag tag army,i read somewhere they committed more troops to the cambo front than to repel the chinnese attack.On a day out to see a Vietnamese coffee harvest we got talking about the amount of mopeds on the roads.
The guide said that deaths on the roads are rising due to the cheap Chinese mopeds undercutting the good makes. 'Yes...even after all these centuries the Chinese manage to come up with new and inventive ways to kill Vietnamese people.'
There was an American sergeant taken by a tiger while on patrol, a few others attacked at different times.Read a piece by an ex Vietcong fighter - he said they were more worried about tigers in the jungle than Enemy soldiers. Loads of them got eaten or mauled.
Even in the meat grinder of the trenches, 86% of soldiers survived. It seems scarcely believable when you see the footage.
There was an American sergeant taken by a tiger while on patrol, a few others attacked at different times.
Why are you so anti-England in every thread?yet englanders go mad when an EU is mentioned
The Vietnamese had a war with China in 1975 iirc.On a day out to see a Vietnamese coffee harvest we got talking about the amount of mopeds on the roads.
The guide said that deaths on the roads are rising due to the cheap Chinese mopeds undercutting the good makes. 'Yes...even after all these centuries the Chinese manage to come up with new and inventive ways to kill Vietnamese people.'
Economic ruin, disease and famine are more deadly, and they are usually the by-product of conflict.I would think so. Let’s look at the UK. How many wars have we had that involved conscription
Ok, I’ve crunched the numbers. Using the last 200 years, as we have records for that: Let’s say for arguments sake that 300,000 men are born in the UK every year.
so that’s 60 million men in 200 years.
The entire death toll of UK personnel in every war since 1815 is 1.5 million.
So on average you’ve had a 2.5% chance of dying. But a lot of those were professional soldiers who were there by choice, so that’s going to bring the odds of a civilian being called up and dying down a fraction I would have thought. So maybe a 2% then? Odds of 50/1 don’t seem that bad.