Скачать или смотреть Why Australian Soldiers Married 600 Vietnamese Women... While US Military Banned It

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. and Australian militaries fought side by side—but faced completely different rules about marrying Vietnamese women. While American soldiers were court-martialed for unauthorized marriages and faced years of bureaucratic nightmares to bring wives home, Australian troops could marry Vietnamese women with minimal paperwork and military approval within two weeks. By war's end, 654 Australian soldiers had married Vietnamese women with a 99.5% approval rate, while fewer than 10% of American marriage requests were approved—leaving thousands of Vietnamese wives and Amerasian children abandoned when Saigon fell. This is the shocking story of how two allied militaries treated love and marriage completely differently, and why the Australian approach proved strategically superior.

0:00 - Opening: Two Soldiers, Two Policies
3:45 - American Ban vs Australian Approval
12:20 - The Court-Martial That Changed Nothing
22:15 - How Australian Marriages Strengthened Intelligence Networks
31:40 - The Fall of Saigon: Evacuating Family vs Abandoning Wives
38:25 - Legacy: 654 Marriages That Changed Two Nations

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