Mission creep ...

In 1961-2, US Advisors began training the Montangnard to fight the North Vietnamese Vietcong, thus starting the disaster of Vietnam after Kennedy was assassinated Nov 22, 1963. Echos of this  CF can be seen with the $800 million dollar initiative to support Ukraine to include, you guessed it, training soldiers, in this case, to use US 155mm howitzers against the Russians. The difference here is Russia's nukes and the potential of staring WW III if a misstep is made in how the US handles its undeniable escalation vis a vis the Russians in the supporting of Ukraine.

A U.S. Army Ranger trains Montagnard guerrillas

U.S. troops deployed to Europe will begin training the Ukrainian military on howitzers and radar systems as part of a massive new weapons and security aid package announced Wednesday.

The planned training is a major development in the U.S. involvement in the bloody Russian war on Ukraine and will put its military once again in direct contact with Ukrainian forces after U.S. troops left the country in the weeks ahead of Russia's invasion.

President Joe Biden has vowed that Americans will not fight in the country, and thousands of troops deployed to eastern Europe have so far only guarded the border of the NATO alliance as the conflict rages next door.

Tell me if we heard this narrative before regarding Nam. Mission creep looms.

History does not repeat but it often rhymes. - Mark Twain