The Art of War: Jungle Warfare 

Aussies here and i live in Tropical north Queensland and we have the same. go hundred metres in to the jungle and can get lost. humidity is huge problem.

Predator was just chilling there with his nice climate controlled suit.

Lol I can't imagine. I grew up in the Adirondacks and on a hot day it feels like your walking through soup. The Amazon must be that x100.

i hear claustrophobia is real in that environment too

Thats what made the Vietnamese maybe the single most formidable fighting force in the middle of the 20th century. They fought off the Japanese, French and Americans then turned and took on Cambodia and China. They still know those jungles.

@@landotter yeah - its dense in there, and you seldom see past 20 yards. Most engagements we had (with blanks and BFA's) occurred at close quarters.

And even worse to be in the jungle and be wounded. It sucks...

no worries. After several decades of climate change there might not have any jungle left.

I feel for your grandfather and just wanted to thank him for his service. I feel for all soldiers that lay there life down for they country

I don't believe he got any medals. Or really done what he done in my opinion. He was just pissed. Because the Japs were ruthless and anything he may have done if he did. Imagine 50 times worse they done.

fuck man...that's brutal shit

A man of integrity and honor, I'm sure - with just a little sweetening of shame. War can kill a man, long before he's dead.

Up most respect for your grandfather, Chindits are legends of the Jungle Warfare.

respect from america 🙏🫶 good luck and stay safe my friend

không chúng ta không phải

Most descriptive location identifier ever.

The feds there in the walls to lmao

They're coming !

They are the trees 😧

Really? It was a serious? Your father was Jewish?

​@luongo7886 you don't have to be Jewish to not have a foreskin.

Your dad is a sally

​@@luongo7886 medical circumcision is a semi-common procedure in tropical environments due to the far increased risk of infection Circumcision is not always a religious procedure

@@jewel1007 Ahh! OK, thanks for the info. As a Vietnamese, I don’t think any of us even heard of circumcision. So how is it possible that we don’t suffer from infections?

Jungles are known as the green Hell.....sooo would that mean they go to a Jungle to regroup? 😂😂

Gross

It's like listening to David Attenborough read 40K lore

@@AldrickExGladius yes and he talked loads of bullshit as well.

You have NOT been in the jungle.

Good lord, talk about a counter ambush.

Poor soldier.. usually tiger will avoid contact with human unless someone going too far into their teritory, this is rarely happened in the jungle most likely people are dying from less sophiscated accident like slippery ground, bite by mosquito, snakes, or monkeys, etc.

Australian SASR were attacked by elephants in Borneo during Malaysia, Indonesia conflict.

It ain't over till the bees achieve air superiority: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tanga

Guys there's no way someone could influence a tiger, indirectly possibly, to go in a certain direction right?

It's "illegal" to use shotguns in war...

​@@nielsstilson9834it's weird that so many have adopted the m1014. Marines love combat shotguns.

@@nielsstilson9834 Counter-insurgency usually does not come under the category of war. Also, Germany did complain of US troops using shotguns during WWI but was deemed in compliance with all war conventions and has been used since then in WWII and Vietnam. I do not see why it would be "illegal" since it shoots solid projectiles that do not expand.

@@nielsstilson9834 Except it's not.

@@usonumabeach300 I own Benelli M4s & love them

Really. No you haven't. If so tell me .

I can't imagine trying to prepare mentally for combat in the jungle...the Viet Cong and NVA might have had the upper hand during the Vietnam conflict but only the snakes and tigers are on home turf 😬

​@@patrickhasachannelYeah, but at least the critters didn't show any joy in what they did. And be it man or beast, the first and last person in a line had a neon target on his ass. The jungle was always the biggest foe. The VC might not see you, but the jungle was like Santa Clause, and watched you every second. 11b (and TDY) 70-71.

Nah, under the sea that's just a submarine, near an active volcano you can still see your enemy and they're affected by the heat equally. But a jungle, a jungle is a maze...there's no knowing what's around the corner.

@@patrickhasachannel Yea sorry Aussies were used to it also as we live in the tropics and have jungles in the north. Aussies AO area of operations was a different story. The SASR Australias SAS were most feared of all and nicknamed the Phantoms of the jungles. Aussies would lay down beside paths and snatch VC as walked past and take them back for interrogation. VC had the saying if your friends were dissapearing or dying silently around you , it was the Aussies. SASR once snuck in to a VC camp just to leave a note that said. you have been visited by the SAS. was done as a mind game trick to let them know they were not safe anywhere. One mission they were caught in the middle of a river crossing. vc made a camp close by. 4 hours they had to stand hidden in the reeds until could sneak away Some missions they got caught and got in a fire fight. then would retreat 100 metres and hide in the jungle and VC couldn't find them. then they would return to LZ and call for extraction. Another mission they snuck in to a VC camp just to count troops for intel. one SASR was so close to VC when was time to leave he had to lean back just so he could fire his gun and get out. Roger Hayden a US Seal in Vietnam spoke of spending 10 days on a mission with SASR and said he was amazed for those 10 days not one word was spoken and all was hand signals. He said his whole career as a seal until 1980's he never came across another special forces unit as good at jungle guerilla warfare as them Australian SASR taught seals in Vietnam. they would exchange and go over to US camp and train them and seals would go out on missions with them.

@@patrickhasachannel mate Papua New Guinea and Australia have jungles also. Australian soldiers trained in these areas before Vietnam and fought in them in WW2. You get used to it. Australian and the very few US soldiers on Papua WW2 fought in thick jungles 88-99% were sick from malaria and still fought a brutal war. Kokoda track Aussies fought in knee high mud the jungle so thick the battles were at point blank throwing grenades and many times had to just use bayonets. supplies were near non existant even for Allies and they were starving also.

You’re a tough man

Liar

@@KennyNGA please elaborate on what you think is a lie here.

3? dunno if i believe that

Do you mean by the age of 30? Not 3? It's very hard to believe you were competent at bush navigation at the age of 3, lol.

@@zhenoob I do actually mean 3. The human brain at that age is incredibly plastic, meaning it can absorb information rather quickly. My grandfather used to take me out bushwalking at least once a week and I literally grew up walking in the bush. My earliest memory is of my grandfather congratulating me for recognising the correct trail to miniature trains that we went to once a month but telling me that that wasn't where we were going that day. By the time I was 30 I had picked up a whole host of skills that my GF didn't get the chance to teach because I was still too young at the time to grasp, like map and compass reading, I even had 15 years of free hold climbing experience at 30.

You have not been in the jungle.😂

Heck, yeah bro!!

I preferred being in the jungle to any where else.Served with 1 RNZIR.

Sure, an army never tested in a ground they affirm they bested. Lol. I beg to differ that the vietnamese army excells much better in jungle warfare

@@luidhifreitas2218 They were. And they did: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SK2clxBaaPs.html

To be fair, that's also because the percentage used to be much higher before mining, urbanization, and slash burn agriculture.

Yes

@@highcountrydelatiteeveryone was scared of each other, doesn’t take away from their courage.

@@heyitsquang285 I have to imagine American conscripted GIs were possibly the most predictable troops. Most of them were not volunteers so they didn't want to be there to begin with. That level of motivation would have likely looked like sheer laziness to everyone else. I've personally worked for companies who decided to hire temporary hires, or temps. These were people who knew they were paid less than the company full time hires and without the same benefits. I consider temps and interns the conscripts of corporate America. I wouldn't be much motivated either if I was in their shoes.

Vietnamese beat the Japanese empire, the 4th French republic, Cold war era USA and peak CCP China/khmer rogue in a span of 40 years. Truly incredible. Its sad tho, ive met 2 older Vietnamese ppl in my life and they both basically said most of the ppl theyve known in life are dead. I remember asking this older, male Viet nurse why he came to America and he said the war. I asked which one and he said "does it matter? One empire leaves another would come". the Vietnamese are probably some of my favorite people on earth. Beautiful culture, beautiful people, beautiful land, everything. And the strangest thing is how kind they are despite all the suffering, even towards Americans. I love going to New orleans, how many Viet ppl are there and idk mane theyre just dope fuggin ppl. I mean I know it was a huge security concern for them but the Vietnamese government did stop the genocide in Cambodia in the late 70s. I know he was dead at that point but Ho Chi Minh was one of greatest statesmen/military commanders of the 20th century.

​@@jazzercise300Vietnam​ beat​ japanese? Lol​ by​ this​ logic china​ would​ beat​ japanese​ in​ ww2

That book is incredible!

Yea FARC has been fighting in the jungles for a long time now. They’ll live in the jungle for years sometimes. Making cocaine in the jungle must’ve been rough lol.

Yeah, No. You must have forgotten that America is in the America's. The entire Columbian army wouldn't last two days against a couple of Delta or SEALS teams.

As melhores tropas de guerra na selva do mundo são do Brasil. Nosso treinamento é o mais completo, mais difícil e mais temido no mundo inteiro. Nada pode vencer o Brasil na selva, NADA!

@@GothlayJeffronimo-zt4sp You're watching too many lying Hollywood movies. Your entire country wouldn't last a month in the Amazon, imagine the weak Seals or Deltas.

BRASIL eu simplesmente não existo ?

My grandfather also fought with the American Red Arrow Division in New Guinea alongside the Aussies. He told me that as everyone had malaria, they had to stay fighting on the front lines until their malarial fevers went OVER 103° F (39.5 C°)! That is insane to me. He also crossed the Owen Stanley Mountains there in 1942/43. A feat still considered suicidal by the natives and unrepeated since WW2

I am still in awe that anyone, Japanese included, managed to survive. Dad's Battalion went in to New Guinea at full strength, roughly 900 men, including HQ staff. After their first campaign they were down to 98 men riddled with Berri Berri and malaria. Rested and reinforced they went back!

I actually went through Jungle training in Panama three times! Thanks for serving.

@@Derandcam how bad did it suck for you? I did my jungle training in Okinawa Japan

@@Styxswimmer about as much as you can imagine 🤪

@Derandcam at one point in the training I was the point man. The jungle was THICK. I took a step and vanished from my mates. What happened was there was a 30 foot drop at a steep angle (about 70 degrees). I fell. I through my hand out and caught a tree after falling about 5 feet. Adrenaline pumping moment.

You were lied to. # of countries that have asked Brazil to help them win a war, still stands at 0

​​​@@Icarus7c04😂😂😂 that last sentence is so incorrect its hilarious. After the failure of US troops to stop the NVA at the Tet Offensive, was the final nail in the coffin for a total occupation in a long list of US failures to exert control over the guerillas. Afghanistan we spent 10 trillion dollars building up a country only to have it taken over a week later by the people we were building it up to defend from. You're right about alot of stuff here but military defeat is the only reason we lost these wars. You wouldn't say Britain won the American revolution because the consequences weren't that bad for them. The US didn't really care about pushback. You gotta remember the deep state at this time was taking out liberals like groundhogs. A great but dated doccumentary on the situation in Afghanistan is, "This is what winning looks like", basically describing the exact situation in Vietnam that led to us pulling out. We had no way to maintain occupation and people in the villages would switch sides and take all their equipment with them. Where you couldn't trust anyone, even your own comrades, and every official is as corrupt and inept as can be. If that's what winning looks like to you, I'd hate to see what losing looks like in your head.

@@Icarus7c04 Ahh, the good old "The piece of paper we signed by which we abandoned our allies to be destroyed after losing 50 thousand men, all of our international credibility, and achieving exactly none of our war aims did not explicitly state that we lost, so we didn't lose" -excuse. How hard is it for Americans to just admit that sometimes wars don't go your way? Besides, the USA has only declared war for like 5 times, so if you refuse to acknowledge the non-wars you lost as defeats, you also don't get any glory for the non-wars you won. There wasn't a declaration of war against Britain in the war of independence, either, so, technically you didn't win that.

They went for fighting communists, but instead they fought nationalists

@@dylanfoster7037 Tet was mostly fought against the Viet Cong and they were almost wiped out.Some of your other comment is just BS.

@terryharris1291 my apologies you're correct on the first point. I was misremembering the fall of Saigon with the Tet Offensive.​ During the Fall of Saigon, The US ground force was forced to retreat, we literally had 1,000's evacuating via helicopter. I know because my grandfather was a door gunner in the 119th Assault Helicopter company, their units call sign was crocs, they flew black ops missions in Laos and Cambodia. Don't think he was their at that event though. So I've always been interested in the history. But yeah, we were caught off guard. All the stuff I said about and Afghanistan and Vietnam was accurate, we had no control over the ground, you kill one wrong person and you make 10 enemies in his family that work to oppose you. The same was true in Afghanistan. Literal tribal leaders we supported knowing full well they only had allegiance to whoever held guns near them. Us or the Taliban. Two countries we never should of been in. Domino theory is a joke when you consider the first thing a free communist vietnam did was invade their neighbors. Not to spread communism but to take their land and evict them over ethnic hatred.

Just another reason why no nation will ever invade America militarily.

Stalingrad Russia

It happen way back 2017 lasted for 5months.

Filipinos always been fighting in jungle warfare since 1500 lol even until now there are still communist peeps hiding in jungle

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Or the trees start speaking

I don't watch much of Simon anymore, dude is telling the truth about his sociopathy. But I still enjoy his content from time to time. His staff are great! Did he do restructuring recently?