One of the Dirty little secrets of the Vietnam War was that the Viet Minh had, serving in its ranks, former Imperial Japanese troops and even Nazi German personnel.
Between 1,500 and 4,000 Japanese troops, including members of the Kempetai, served as technicians and trainers and served as the core of the first Viet Minh artillery units. some 100 or so Nazi officials and soldiers of the Auslander organization also fought with the Viet Minh.
And in the 1950s, the former Nazi commando otto Skorzeny served as a technical advisor to the South Vietnamese Army.
"Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War"
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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