It was defeated by PVA. US-SK forces started at almost the border of Yalu River and was driven back to the 38th parallel by Chinese PVA.
And then what happened? BTW, if MacArthur had his itchy radioactive trigger fingers unrestrained by Truman, we wouldn't even be talking about any Chinese victory in the Korean War.
I must've missed where the Taliban had tanks and aircraft. Please let me know the Afghan Air Force and armored corps ORBAT in September 2001.
They absolutely had tanks and aircraft, so yes, you missed it: "By 2001, Pakistan was providing the Taliban regime in Kabul with hundreds of advisers and experts to run its tanks, aircraft and artillery, thousands of Pakistani Pashtuns to man its infantry and small units of its Special Services Group commandoes to help in combat with the Northern Alliance."
Let me know if you missed anything else.
What a very long cope article. The total kill ratio is even more accurate. You can scroll down to "total losses" if you want to check.
A microcosm of the tactical air picture is in the US's premier offensive air mission, Operation Linebacker:
US: 134 aircraft lost in combat or operational accidents
North Vietnam:
U.S. claim: 63 aircraft shot down
US lost 1:2 in this single engagement.
I love how you love to perseverate on Operation Linebacker as a "microcosm" of the air war, as if one single engagement and some magical handwaving can somehow extrapolate it to the entire air war over the course of the Vietnam War. But yeah sure, you go on with your bad self, own that linebacking battle, and just go ahead and ignore the inconvenient details like overall air-to-air combat ratios.
North Vietnam had no insurgency. The insurgency was South Vietnamese sponsored by North Vietnam but not North Vietnam themselves. Viet Cong were southern citizens, not northern citizens.
In fact, US forces, per your own admission, never went into North Vietnam. How could North Vietnam have an insurgency if US forces weren't there?
Oh come on, look at you spindoctoring with semantics. That's about as hilariously ridiculous as saying "no, No, NO! I stuck you with a shiv, NOT a knife. Get it straight!" LOL, as if the VC were almost like a different species of human, just so you can spin some nonsensical argument out of an irrelevant distinction.
The only action of PAVN vs. US was conventional: air defense, air to air, and conventional battles like Khe Sahn where 40k soldiers were involved on each side. I don't think a battle with 40k soldiers, artillery and tanks is 'insurgency'. As for who won Khe Sahn, I'll let the US's own numbers do the talking.
As I said, Vietnam involved both conventional force-on-force AND insurgency. Not sure how you missed that, but I did say it actually TWICE in my last post.
