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To: justshutupandtakeit
"What Super power will side with the American militias? "

Members of the US military would in certain situations.

"Which one will supply them with training and Stingers?"

Many of the militia are ex-military, thus they were already trained. Stingers? Ever hear of improvised munitions? Ever hear the saying "when there's a will, there's a way"? If they had to go into machine shops and build their own weapons, they would.

"Maybe you are unaware that the French were beaten in Vietnam because the North had an army which was supplied with weapons by the U.S.A. Half the armaments readied for an army of 1 million to invade Japan was diverted to Ho Chi Minh's forces after WWII. The other half was sent to Korea."

So the US built AKs? Boy you just keep piling the crap.

"Nor was the Viet Cong a militia. These were paramilitary forces armed and supplied from the North backed up by the North Vietnamese Army. Most of the "Viet Cong" were former refugees from the North introduced into the South by American policy during the 50s, they weren't Tonkinese or native to the South"

Who ran the supplies in the North? The militia were the ones that hauled it along the trail while the regulars fought. The militia was also involved in ambushes, etc. How did the North form their army against the French? By first starting with militias.
581 posted on 02/11/2004 1:22:59 PM PST by looscnnn (Tell me something, it's still "We the people", right? -- Megadeth (Peace Sells))
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To: looscnnn
Apparently you do not know much about the history of the Vietnam war. If you did you would know that Russian and Chinese were not showing up in captured armed until the war was well underway certainly not when the French were fighting it.

Ho Chi Minh created his military structures fighting the JAPANESE that is why he was initially armed by the US.

Communist revolutionaries were not militia. Guerrilla fighters are not NECESSARILY militia either.
621 posted on 02/11/2004 2:32:48 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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