If the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was a false start, the subsequent increase in troops and escalation of the war would mean more and more serious mistakes in the process of making up for the previous mistakes. However, due to face and regional influence, Not to make Vietnam, the entire Indochina, and all Southeast Asian countries fall to the Soviet camp, they can only bite the bullet and hold on.
In Afghanistan, more than 30 years after the US withdrew from Vietnam, the US military still made the same mistakes. They built their outposts in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides, and they were attacked from time to time by Taliban armed forces. It was already a false start. However, even if the next successive commanders sacrificed, they could not make the superiors decide to cancel the outposts. Resolved, instead, in order to ensure the military presence during the campaign in Afghanistan, the original scheduled evacuation time was postponed, and the news was eventually leaked. Before the evacuation, they were attacked by Taliban armed forces.
The stupidity of the middle and upper ranks of the US military cannot conceal the bravery of middle and lower rank officers and grassroots soldiers. Facing the siege of enemies several times their own, the base soldiers held several defensive points under the organization of several sergeants, supported each other, and launched counterattacks, supporting the arrival of air support forces. In order to save costs, the "big killer" B1B bomber in the film only appeared for a short shot, but the director used a very clever way to show the arrival of the "savior" through the indirect perspective of the reflection in the water around the trapped soldiers. , It is not ingenious.
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