Відео

Max Hastings: I once asked Vietnam’s foreign minister Nguyen Co Thach why, after his country was attacked by the Khmer Rouge, it had not taken its case to the UN instead of invading Cambodia late in 1978. ‘We do not have such a high regard for the UN as you do,’ he replied. ‘How so?’ ‘Because during the last forty years we have been invaded by four of the five permanent members of the Security Council.’

Hastings was not the hero here, it was The poor troops who were forced to Go....US Army vet.

The truth about the Vietnam War that was never fully told. United States had No intention of winning the Vietnam War from the very beginning. Fear it might become like the Korean War with mass continuing Communist Chinese troops from China pouring against American military force in Vietnam. And the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250,000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60,000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South Vietnamese leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When US President JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order his CIA to stage a military coup assasination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This action give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And the US appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers for Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500,000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their communist allies The Pathet Lao army, and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States, fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 20 days after the military coup assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1964, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the South Vietnam. 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60,000 troops to over 1,000,000 troops. On March 16, 1968, several group of US platoons military unit rape and massacre 500 Vietnamese villagers of women, childrens, and old peoples at the village called My Lai during their Search and Destroyed mission. When news and image of My Lai massacre broadcast all across America. There was a mass out cry of protest all across America. Demanding all US millitary force pull out of Vietnam. This lead to Republican Presidential candidate Richard Nixon winning the Nov. 3, 1968 US Presidential election. The following year, when Richard Nixon took office. His 1st excutive order was to pull out all US military force out of Vietnam. By then, the communist North Vietnamese army was already infiltrate all over in South Vietnam and attacking every since the Tet offensive that happen on Jan 30, 1968 - Sept 23, 1968. President Nixon order a nonstop US B52 bombers to bombed Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam and its seaport military supply, Haiphong. This halted the advance of the North Vietnamese army taking over all of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese army began retaking back many city and town from Communist North Vietnam in the South. But all that end, on August 8, 1974, when US President Richard Nixon made a televise annoucement of his resignation as US President to American peoples over the Watergate Scandal. This was a few months from the US Congressional election. On Nov. 5, 1974 The Democrats party won a landslide in the US Senate and the House of Representative. The following year in 1975, the newly elected Democrats took their seat in Congress. The 1st bill of law pass was to cut off all US military aids funding to South Vietnam. This action cause the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975 to communist North Vietnam. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today over 100's of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3,000,000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers. Why I post this is because for years I'm tired Americans use Vietnam War as a Propaganda War story. Telling peoples that they there to help South Vietnam fight against communist North Vietnam. When America is the root cause for the Vietnam War and the downfall of South Vietnam. .

I read his book about Vietnam and he could never rationalize the relative success of the British in Malaysia and the USA in Korea , and condemning the USA's campaign in Vietnam in every aspect. Any observer in the early 1960's, looking at Korea and Malaysia, could reasonably have believed that Vietnam would be a similar, relatively short conflict that would result in at least a militarily stable South Vietnam.

Brilliant archive, Mr.Hastings makes war reporting look casual, in what must have been a terrifying location…. I salute you Sir🫡

Thanks for your service and everyone that was there Thanks everyone please remember the ones that didn’t make it back home! Thanks

You can criticize the War, but you should support the warrior (Calley is the obvious exception)

Just look at these young men and what they did for their country. They were never sure about what they were doing. They were brave. They were heroes for the wrong reasons.

2:20 why is there a sign that says salute? Can anyone explain?

When war reporters reported on war from the front not a news room 250 miles away 😮

What a mind controlled idiot

Two fascinating and engaging communicators of history

The king of England is saying it's my father Gordon

I like seeing the real people... Thank you for your service

These are a couple of interesting reports from Max Hastings.

I very much enjoy Hastings books. He is an excellent and insightful historian

It's a shame Max Hastings ended up being an egotisitical git with about as much historical acumen as a 'squashed apricot'.

Remember per US state department that isnn

Nothing wrong with your voice mate

"We are the unwilling, lead by the unqualified, doing the impossible, for the ungrateful." What an excellent quote.

cant find much Sandy Gall

Lt Borrison could have been a movie star.

Excellent Max, very clear and concise, glad you made it

The U.S. government betrayed the U.S. military in Vietnam with its rediculouse rules of engagement. Sort of the samething the U.S. government is still doing in Putins war. Ukraine is forced to fight with one arm tied behind its back.

Interesting, My good friend's father was in Vietnam as a pilot and his name was Hastings also. Colonel Eric Hastings.

Somehow Max looks and sounds older in Vietnam than he does now

Almost the same language used by the soldiers in these interviews as the plains soldiers of 1878 in america.

My dad was there with 3RAR in 1971. Thanks for sharing these reports - vital historical journalism.

No helmet, is that a cravat he is wearing, looks like a jerk? Is that respect for the guys who have to fight and die?

The commanding officer and kids in this unit seems like honorable people in a dishonorable situation

Dad Told me about " Snatch's " In the war . Dad Got A Medal for it at Hue . It turned out to be a Navy Achievement medal with a V for Vallor or VD I think he was still pretty confused at the time.

In the early sixties, I lived in Paris in a French apt building. At age 13 I became aware that something was amiss in a country that I never heard of. Our neighbor was a Vietnamese Doctor. "You should visit Vietnam, very nice country," he said.

Is he real or fake?

I'm very sure that the LATE GREAT John PILGER was there in Vietnam ar that Exact year..😑😑😒🙏🙏💜💜💜💜

The artillery scared my cat :(

ฉันรู้จักเธอเพียงเล็กน้อยเท่านั้น ไปถึงประวัติแต่ว่าเธออยู่ที่อุบลราชธานีจะเกิดที่ประเทศลาวนอกนั้นมันเป็นสิ่งที่ฉันคิดว่าน่าจะใช่

They are not taking a swim, they are bathing

Must have been hot as hell

Indochina war 1950-1975s😢😂❤

Во что обошлась "война за демократию" во Вьетнаме: В войне погибли 58 220 американских солдат, еще 153 303 были ранены, 1643 пропали без вести. Северный Вьетнам потерял 1,1 миллиона своих бойцов, а потери сайгонской армии составили 250 000 человек убитыми. В обеих частях страны, по минимальным оценкам, погибли более 2 миллионов мирных жителей. США, - слуги САТАНЫ!

Max Hastings I believe was the first person into Port Stanley during the Falklands Campaign...the Paras were not happy...and let him now.

Of course a fat degenerate opposes Franco

Iv listened to his books/audio books on audible , his cold war ones amazing

Vietnam started in 1955 not 1945 and America entered in 1965.

It’s a huge question, you either think humans are on this planet for no other reason than to compete to screw each other over, or you see value in working toward a system of fairness that harmonizes the human experience globally? The former seems to require a great deal more empathy than a few are willing to stomach.

Excellent reporting and the piece shows so well the absurdity of the final years of the Vietnam war and the disillusion of the mostly conscript troops, in an unwinnable war. No wonder there was so much PTSD in the aftermath.

Tom, I have a plan. Dave

I wonder what year this fim was made

I was waiting for Monty Python to pop out

He wrote one of the best books about the Vietnam War.