[Marxism] "The Quiet Mutiny" (1970)

[Jesse Jack]

On 10/16/07, Joaquin Bustelo <jbustelo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>         At any rate, 80,000 is roughly the same number of front line
> troops
> as are in Iraq now, by my calculation, or more precisely, that are in the
> fighting units (Brigade Combat teams) in Iraq, though a number of the
> 4,000
> troops in a BCT --I *think* a few hundred-- are really in support
> functions.
> Since I don't know how the Vietnam number was arrived at, or whether it
> includes the Marines, a very exact comparison is impossible, but this does
> confirm that Iraq is not a qualitatively smaller war than Vietnam was,
> which
> is the impression you get by looking at the total troop raw number
> (160,000
> in Iraq now versus 550,000 in Vietnam at the peak of the war).
>