Peter Navarro here with the latest podcast and Substack,

Why Israel Must Invade Gaza, Lessons From Vietnam.

If there's any one single lesson from America's first loss war, the Vietnam War, it is that tunnels can play a pivotal role.

That lesson informs today's war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and explains why there can be no security in Israel

without the total destruction of Hamas's Gaza terror tunnels.

During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops used an extensive tunnel system in and around Saigon, now Hoichi Min City, that stretched for more than 150 miles to the Cambodian border.

They literally prosecuted their war right under the noses and boots of American and South Vietnamese troops.

From these tunnels of Kuchy, several major military operations were launched, including the

devastating 1968 Tet offensive that put the American

command on its heels and turned the tide of the war. These tunnels were also

a synergistic adjunct to the infamous Ho Chi Min trail that delivered

troops, supplies, and weapons from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia to the Viet Cong with devastating efficiency.

On a daily basis, the tunnels were used to Bivouac troops, set booby traps, and Mount Surprise raids, sometimes inside the very

perimeters of American bases, most devastatingly Tonsenute Air Base. It took the American Military Command until 1966 to recognize the seriousness of this lethal threat.

And the response was beyond inadequate. Brave American tunnel rats

armed with only pistols and flashlights were sent fruitlessly into the breach. Without an effective tunnel response, we never stood a chance.

Comes now a terror tunnel complex, crisscrossing the Gaza Strip, every bit the rival and every bit as dangerous as Vietnam's.

To understand the breathtaking scope of Hamas's tunnels, one must first understand the Gaza Strip is only 25 miles long and 3.5 to 7.5 miles at its widest.

Yet, beneath its 141 square miles, there lies more than 300 miles of pure tunnel terror.

Hamas itself boasts this tunnel complex is twice the size of that in the Vietnam War

and equally well equipped with food, power, barracks, and

hospitals.

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