>>18065155 (OP)
Most Mexicans ran away from American forces during the Mexican-American war, so yeah.
>>18065246
The funniest thing is that the Vietnamese themselves don't really regard the U.S as a significant player during this war. They simply see them as opportunists who propped up the south during what they considered to be a civil war rather than American VS North Vietnam.
>>18065381
You have to put the civilians in camps and make them entirely dependent on your food supply. Then you bomb farms and salt the earth so that rebels can't forage, grow, or loot. Guerilla armies exist off the backs of the civilian population. Without which they either starve, surrender for food, or carry out retarded suicide missions into heavily fortified areas out of desperation.