Fog of War | Documentary
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- Soviet Union was transferring Nuclear Weapons to Cuba which can target most American cities
- US almost destroyed Cuba
- Kennedy responded to the ‘soft message’ by empathizing with Soviet:
- Kruchev would take pride in saying “I saved Cuba from invasion”
- Kennedy responded to the ‘soft message’ by empathizing with Soviet:
- Luck was why Nuclear war didn’t happen
- 1200 nuclear weapons can be launched in 15 minutes by 1 human being
- Proportionality should be a guideline in war:
- Should we kill 100k Japanese to save 10k soldiers when invading them? No
- Only the losers of war are reprehended for breaking laws of war
- Belief and seeing is often wrong
- US assuming from 1 attack and 1 misinterpreted attack as an escalation of the Vietnamese
- And believed that they would not stop until they win
- A fuck ton of Bombings started
- In the Vietnam War: US didn’t empathize with the Vietnamese
- US thought of Vietnam as a proxy of Cold War: this political objective doesn’t fit the 3 trinity of war.
- People don’t care about Vietnamese’s independence
- Vietnamese thought of it as a Civil War: they fought for independence against slavery
- Vietnamese know they aren’t pawns of Chinese or Soviet: therefore they would’ve never stopped fighting a war for survival
- Alliance with China was only because of convenience and not of ideology
- Strategic Realism Theoretical Perspectives on Game Theory
- Vietnamese know they aren’t pawns of Chinese or Soviet: therefore they would’ve never stopped fighting a war for survival
- US thought of Vietnam as a proxy of Cold War: this political objective doesn’t fit the 3 trinity of war.
- Sometimes you can’t figure out the political objective of the enemy