OPUS 82321 Art of LOSING War: Viet Nam/ Afghanistan
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Hi, this is Dr. Pachinko.
Today I want to talk about the principles of losing wars.
Particularly in America, the Biden administration reified for me the reason why we continuously lose wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam.
Let me explain what I mean.
Number one, we create wars in distant countries, literally thousands of miles away.
Two, we create wars in countries that are geographically very hard to navigate.
Vietnam was a jungle.
Afghanistan were mountains.
Three, we create wars with generals who've never been competent.
Westmoreland was a total fiasco in Vietnam, as is General Mattis, Petraeus, and Neelay in Afghanistan.
Thirdly, we have presidents who never really served in the American army.
For example, Biden.
Biden is what we call a chicken hawk.
He's been there for 43 years in the administration, in all types of politics, but never really wanted to serve our country.
He refused to serve five different times because, quote, he had asthma.
The same thing can be said for LBJ, who really is a chicken hawk.
He decided that he would increase the number of troops that we had to about a quarter of a million to two million, and eventually we had a result that was a disaster.
A quarter of a million of our brave men were killed, half a million were wounded, and millions were killed in Vietnam.
That's the same story we have in Afghanistan.
We killed two to five thousand of our soldiers and hundreds of thousands of people were wounded and we really didn't accomplish anything.
The issue to understand is that we always have an individual in each country who is a manipulator And a sociopath.
In the case of Vietnam, it was General Diem, who was so corrupt, it was unbelievable.
In the case of Afghanistan, we had a person who worked for me, and I was totally unimpressed by him, named Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghani who trained at the University of Beirut, i.e.
a CIA operative.
And he made a total mess out of Afghanistan and was personally responsible for all the deaths that occurred and the fact that we had a failed incursion into Afghanistan.
But he will never pay the price for it because we never, never make sure that our presidents or our civilians or our individuals are accountable for the failures that they made.
The generals that we have have been a disaster.
In Vietnam, it was Westmoreland, a complete unmitigated disaster.
In Afghanistan, we had Petraeus, we had Mattis, and we had other generals who really didn't know anything about what they were doing, but didn't have any problem retiring and going into the military-industrial complex.
Then we have to understand that we go into countries where there's inherent wealth in those countries.
In Vietnam, we were able to build up a society and a military-industrial complex that met every criteria that we needed.
Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin all made money.
Same thing in Afghanistan.
Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and many other military industrial complexes including the Blackwater mercenaries who were paid to go in there and do the things that they do.
We don't hold anybody accountable.
The secretaries of state in each administration under Biden, Anthony Blinken, I have said from the very day he came in, he's totally incompetent, has no understanding of strategy and tactics, is a disaster, along with his companion, Wendy Sherman, a social worker at the State Department who also has no idea.
We have 22 different appointees who have no idea what they're doing.
Let me quote Sun Tzu in The Art of War.
In order to win a war, you have to be able to have psychological warfare and create the scenario where you defeat the enemy first in your mind and then you do one thrust and kill them.