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It was mutual benefits relationship: both sides got what they wanted. VN got guns and supports from China, China turned VN into a broken country like Korea, with the civil wars going on, one side got dependent on China. Don't tell me that China helped VN out of communism brotherhood or...

:cheers:. BTW where did you find the past pic? It look obviously photoshoped.

Why not? VN might be the only Southern Outpost for the Russian Pacific fleet in the world East Asia regions. Maintaining VN support ensure that Russian warships can resupply and repair for extended operation in South Pacific area.

All North Korea did for their space program was to launch a bassilic missle towards the sea, and the world made a fuss about it. Now look at the map, and draw a possible path for VN long range missle to fly without passing over any other nations airspace. Whatever VN tries to lauch, it will not...

Congrat, Indian friends. Hopefully India will become the fourth nation to bring man into space. :toast_sign:

No, that logic should be like this: you are wearing a red shirt, there are two buckets of red and blue paint you must choose one to paint your house. You will be likely to get some paint on your clothes. Which one will you choose? Of course there are other people in the house who wear blue...

??? I don't get where did you get that idea? @NiceGuy just meant if NVN tried to copied the NK way, it would just collapsed itself as the people wouldn't have supported it, but would rather flee the country. However, the most suitable refuge would be China, as China would 120% support NVN to go...

That goes for all of us who never taste real war. VN got bombed by the total of 5 times explosive power of the bomb dropped in Hiroshima, constantly in 10 years. We can't say who suffered more, because number of casuality alone is never the reflect the true cruelty of war. Anyway I thought this...

2 in training and 1 still on transfering paper from Russia to VN. 3 more are waiting for money to be built. I heard they are testing the third sub it in Russia and will transport it to VN at the end of 2014, while the first two are running practice patrols around the coast. It will take...

Sadly, @gambit is that kind of person. We argued once about that. He has his reasons and belief, but it's not for unity.

Officially, the number is around 300,000 regular troops, with 8 millions in reserve. Airforce is the lowest, with only around 30,000. Second is the navy with around 80,000 men and the biggest group is ground forces. Also there are around 250,000 - 300,000 men and women serve in the half-armed...

Furthermore, the judges for whether you were guilty or not were soldiers, who had little to no education. Also people with different nationalities also fell in the "couldn't be reeducated" category, and would be executed.

You are quite right there, my friend. If you think about the geography of China, being in the center ensure it gains certain benefits, while being exposed to certain threat. In ancient time, when there were no airplane or long-distance capable ships, China's only backdoor was the South, namely...

The problem is in the past, we set aside our dispute already. After the normalization in 1991, VN and China did go back being buddies for a while. The news never mentioned about China occupying Paracels, and rarely mention about incidents happened in SCS. Back in 2005, around that time there...

Thanks bro. VN has potential, but the leaders aren't as good as the previous generation. They make some serious mistakes, and clumsily cover it up. Also they lack the spirit of their fathers.

I believe there was a Discovery show compare this sword to European sabre. And the result was unexpected. This sword can crush through helmet easily, and certainly break an arm or leg if make contact. The flesh wound it made was so nasty that doctor at that time could not do anything but to dig...

There is the US image behind those classic Asian Tigers. Even now I see Singapore is more US friendly than China friendly. There are several reasons why VN cannot match those tigers. One huge reason is that VN just joined WTO in 2005, I believe, and from then had access to the world market. Even...

Dude, whatever they were, they were still VNese. Some SVN presidents tried to shake off US colars, and got couped by US puppet generals. We are the victors, we should show mercy on them.

That's only applied to case when you have enough manpower and resources to carry out attacks. With US helps, SVN should have just unified the whole VN, but then against the ones behind NVN (China and USSR) were not known for fair play and stuff. Before you know it VN war could have turned into...

It was not to kill, but rather to injure and disable as many US troops as possible. It was part of the psycological warfare against US. Because they were fine with the way they had been. First a part of France nation, then an US ally. Unifying with the North would have only dragged them down...