The Vietnamese people

This is not said: the struggle of the Vietnamese people against French and American occupations is a human epic story of courage and persistence.  Those poor and skinny people were able to achieve the defeat of the most powerful army which never held back in its use of the most savage and cruel methods of subjugation. But nothing worked.  You read the transcript between Nixon and Kissinger in which the former suggest the use of nuclear weapons and instructs Kissinger to "think big"?