A formidable army alarms Viet Nam's neighbors
Fear of Viet Nam's military might casts a doleful shadow over the future of every non-Communist country in Southeast Asia. Man for man, weapon for weapon, Hanoi's 600,000 troops constitute the most redoubtable middle-size army in the world, with the possible exception of Israel's. If the Vietnamese invaded Thailand, and if Bangkok called on its near neighbors for help, the combined five-nation ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) forces would be paper tigers in the face of Hanoi's overwhelming superiority in experience and firepower. Since Malaysia,...
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