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The United States has been thinking about it for decades but has not figured out why China was able to win a war that they failed to win in 11 years in 28 days.
At the end of the 50s of the last century, the United States, out of the need for its own interests, launched a war against Vietnam. Originally, the United States believed that Vietnam's military strength was backward, and it would be a matter of minutes to take Vietnam with its own powerful force.
Unexpectedly, the United States not only failed to win the war, but also allowed itself to be mired in the quagmire of war. On the other hand, in the 1979 self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, it only took 28 days for Vietnam to completely calm down.
You know, at that time, China's military strength was very different from that of the United States, so how did the mainland do it?
The United States was mired in war in Vietnam
After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union represented two different ideologies and were caught in the "cold war" without gunpowder. In order to seek the status of "world hegemon," the United States is constantly trying to expand its influence in the Asian region.
At that time, Vietnam was divided into two opposing regimes, the North and the South, due to the joint influence of the United States and the Soviet Union. Therefore, in 1964, the United States brazenly sent troops to Vietnam in order to support the South Vietnamese government close to it.
In the beginning, the United States did not take the war too seriously. Because after the end of World War II, the United States not only reached a new peak in national strength, but also led the world in military strength.
In contrast, Vietnam has been a colony since modern times, with backward development of national strength and very weak military strength. But as the war progressed, the United States gradually realized that something was wrong.
At that time, in order to end the war against Vietnam as soon as possible, the United States not only sent its proud mechanized combat units to the Vietnamese battlefield, but also allowed fighter planes to seize air supremacy on the battlefield and bomb the Vietnamese army without stopping.
However, the Vietnamese army took perfect advantage of the terrain and hid in the mountains and waged a "guerrilla war" with the American army.
As the U.S. military deepened step by step, they found that their advanced tanks and battlefields had no way to drive into the mountains, and even the fighters were blocked by the dense woods and could not lock on to the target.
In desperation, the U.S. military had no choice but to abandon mechanized weapons and choose to attack the Vietnamese army in the most primitive way. Until this time, the U.S. military believed that with its advanced weapons, the Vietnamese army was definitely not an opponent.
But soon, the U.S. military couldn't laugh, and the Vietnamese army perfectly used the terrain advantage to give guerrilla warfare to the extreme, and gave the U.S. troops a head-on blow out of nowhere.
From 1964, when the U.S. military officially fought against Vietnam, to the end of the war in 1975. In the past 11 years, no matter how much the US military has tried its best, it has never taken advantage of Vietnam, but has allowed itself to be mired in the quagmire of war.
According to incomplete statistics, the United States spent more than $570 billion on the battlefield in Vietnam, but in the end it paid the price of more than 360,000 casualties and failed to win the war.
There is no doubt that the losses and long-term adverse effects of the war against Vietnam on the United States were enormous, which is why the United States still remembers this painful lesson even today.
However, after the end of the Vietnam War, a self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam on the mainland made the United States think for decades without understanding why China completely cleaned up Vietnam in only 28 days. You must know that in addition to the United States, France has also suffered a big loss in Vietnam.
A self-defense counterattack against Vietnam that was won in 28 days
In fact, for a long time after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China and Vietnam maintained good relations due to their ideological identity.
Even when the United States brazenly sent troops to invade Vietnam, the mainland also sent troops to provide military assistance to Vietnam.
However, I don't know if it was because of the victory over the United States that Vietnam's ambitions swelled. Since 1979, Vietnam has repeatedly created friction on the Sino-Vietnamese border, illegally invaded mainland territory, and brazenly harmed the mainland people.
At first, the mainland adhered to the UN code and diplomatically lodged a solemn protest against Vietnam, condemning their illegal acts. However, instead of reining in, Vietnam has intensified its efforts to stir up friction on the Sino-Vietnamese border again.
In order to protect the mainland's state sovereignty and the safety of the people's lives and property, on 17 February 1979, the mainland's border troops in Guangxi and Yunnan launched a war of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam.
At the beginning of the war, Vietnam was confident that it would be able to defeat our People's Liberation Army in the same way that it had defeated the American army.
The final result was that the war completely showed a "one-sided" trend, and it took only 28 days from the official dispatch of troops from the mainland on 17 February to the end of the combat mission on 16 March, when the mainland troops completely withdrew from Vietnam.
This war of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam has greatly consolidated the national defense and security of the mainland's southwestern border areas, and has more effectively deterred Vietnam, so that it still does not dare to have ill intentions toward the mainland.
It is precisely this self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam that has taken the United States decades without understanding why it has failed in 11 years of fighting, but China can win in 28 days?
The righteous army will be victorious
As a matter of fact, there are many reasons why the mainland was able to win the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in a short period of time, while the United States ended up in embarrassment.
First and foremost, the nature of the two wars is different. The United States waged war against Vietnam in order to achieve its own national interests and promote hegemonism, so the war they launched was aggressive and unjust.
The reason why the mainland launched a war of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam was because Vietnam had repeatedly and illegally violated the mainland's national sovereignty and was forced to carry out a self-defense counterattack in order to protect the country's sovereignty.
Second, at that time, the United States had always been accustomed to the combat mode of large mechanized corps, relying on tanks and armored vehicles to open the way on the ground battlefield, and relying on fighters and bombers to gain air supremacy in the air.
However, due to Vietnam's complicated terrain, the tanks and planes of the US military basically lost their effectiveness, and they could only rely on the combat methods they were not good at fighting Vietnam.
On the contrary, our people's army was known as the "strongest army on the surface" in those years, and its combat quality and combat capability were extremely outstanding, and it was able to adapt well to Vietnam's special terrain conditions.
In the end, Vietnam was able to win a victory against the United States by mastering the essence of "guerrilla warfare." However, it is important to know that Vietnam's "guerrilla warfare" was taught by the military instructors sent by the mainland to aid Vietnam at that time.
Therefore, in the war of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, Vietnam used "guerrilla warfare" to fight against the mainland, which was equivalent to "an apprentice fighting a master," and there was no chance of victory at all.
Therefore, the reason that the United States has spent decades not understanding is actually very simple: an unjust war of aggression cannot be won in the end.
And the Chinese People's Liberation Army, in order to protect the homeland and defend the country, won the self-defense counterattack war in only 28 days with the righteous army, which also fully demonstrated the strength of the mainland people's army!