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Are there any Vietnam War veterans here?
What is your opinions the South Vietnamese military and its soldiers. I once had an American Vietnam War vet speak at my school. He said that most ARVN troops were mostly cowards who whenever possible would avoid combat and let the Americans fight their battles. I thought that this was kind of offensive since my dad is vet, he was in the ARVN. I served for a few years, and then was sent to a reeducation camp after the war. He told me that the ARVN fought 75% of the war. The Americans mostly defended their bases.
One thing to remember is that soldiers in the ARVN did not just serve for a year or two in Vietnam. They fought until the war was over. We could go home after putting in our time in. The ARVN troops were in it "for the duration".
Some ARVN soldiers were great. Others weren't so hot. But you can say the same thing of American GIs.
I remember an ARVN ranger battalion that kicked the stuffings out of the NVA one Tet. The rangers pretended to get drunk and acted careless, encouraging the NVA to attack. When the NVA did that night, the rangers were ready for them and gave them a very big surprise! 
I was in northern II Corps, after the American troops supposedly had turned the area over to the ARVN. In reality, the infantry withdrew but they left behind my battalion. As combat engineers, we could defend ourselves and go about keeping the roads open and maintaining the airfield. The ARVN infantry went out looking for the NVA, and I remember seeing ARVN military funerals far too often from their encounters.
If your dad is thinking of that, yes - the ARVN went out to fight, since that's what infantry did. We usually didn't go looking for a fight, since it wasn't our job. Still, the fight often came to us and we took some heavy casualties too. But before the US infantry pulled back, the GIs did most of the fighting there.
The ARVN were never really thought to be strong enough to defeat the NVA by themselves. The idea behind the cease fire accords was that Hanoi would leave the South alone. Then the ARVN would be strong enough to handle the local Viet Cong. Of course, that didn't happen and Hanoi's entire armed forces invaded the South in 1975. The US Congress refused to get involved and the South lost. I'm still disgusted with the US government for that. They got 50,000 Americans killed in the war - and then just sort of lost interest.
Say hello to your dad, and tell him this VN vet remembers the ARVN as good guys. If he was in the 42d ARVN, I may have seem him around at times.
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The antidote to war is Justice
In the presence of true justice, war does not happen. In order to create war, one must ensure that all efforts to erect a system for the implementation of true justice are thwarted.
One can observe that to the degree that Man is in affinity with man, he survives. To the degree that man's affinity with man is inhibited, his ability to survive is jeopardized. In order to have war, one must destroy man's sense of affinity with man.
The purpose of justice is the survival of the community. Its function is to locate the perpetrators of acts that inhibit the survival of their fellow man (criminals) and have them cease committing those acts.
True justice does not inconvenience the honest citizen, neither does it inconvenience the honest government because it targets only those engaged in criminal actions.
Laws prohibit certain acts because it is recognized that those acts harm the survival of the human community.
The correct target, the only correct target, of justice actions is he who commits acts that are counter to the survival of the human community. Justice enters in when someone will not correct his own counter-survival actions. It is the effort of the group to protect itself from the harm done by such persons.
Justice must be equitably applicable to all, lest some be exempt from it and thereby left free to commit harm. Laws, for the same reason, must be uniformly applicable to all. Anything less isn't justice. The less justice we have, the less the community is able to protect itself from the criminal and so the less able to survive are the members of that community.
What is missing from the global community of nations at this time, and it is this omission that continually gets us into war and other troubles, is an equitable system of laws that define and proscribe recognized harmful acts and an equitable system of justice for correctly identifying the perpetrators of harmful acts and having them cease those acts.
Until such a justice system is in place, there will be anarchy among nations and criminals will remain at liberty to harm their fellows.
The solution to our current international debacle is not war. It is to invest maximum effort and maximum resources into the creation instead of a Truly Equitable system of justice for the resolution of disputes between nations and for taking action against criminals, and only criminals, on the basis of verified evidence.
This is something all honest men of good will can support because it is they who would make immense gain from such a system, were it ever to come into being. The only persons who would be "harmed" by it are criminals.
It is for that very reason that only criminals will resist, impede or object to the efforts required to bring such a system into being.
Propose a system for international justice, then see who decries it, seeks to discourage it or works to undermine it. And right here you have someone up to no good.
By their deeds shall we know them.
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