• yesman@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    A coworker once told me that the Confederacy was doomed because the Union had superior industrial might. I told him that sounds like wisdom in English, but in Vietnamese it’s a joke.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      That’s the difference between a limited and total war.
      During world war 2, the US produced enough combat vehicles to fit all Americans serving concurrently in Vietnam, while building mote than one ship a day, engineering nuclear bombs and supplying their allies.