Explanation: Vietnam spent several decades fighting against outside powers attempting to place a puppet regime over them - first the French, attempting to hold on to their colonial possessions; then the US, attempting to prop up an anti-communist military junta; then China, attempting to support Pol Pot in Cambodia by a scorched earth campaign in Vietnam.

Despite inflicting significant casualties on Vietnam, all three failed, and Vietnam maintained its independent posture.

They’re doing alright now.

The NVA was actually not the National Veterinarian Association as commonly thought, but the North Vietnamese Army which was slightly better armed.