User blog comment:MilitaryBrat/Viet Cong vs Taliban/@comment-5232784-20130101053701

I do not know enough about the comparable strengths/weaknesses of the weapons being used, so I will stick to history and x factors.

Both of these warriors come from nations with histories of brutal conflict and first and second world interference. Both forces were forged in war. Both are masters of guirella tactics. Although the Vietcong are listed as having more experience, both peoples lived and breathed it, and it would be hard to say one is more experienced in warfare than the other when both nations have been fighting for millenia, both before and during the timeline of these two forces. In experience I give them a tie.

The Vietcong have better marksmanship, but the Taliban have more training...this is a very dificult choice. However, the Taliban were able to best the Soviet Union of the 1970's-80's, while the Vietcong fought the USA of the 60s/70's, and it would be fair to assume that the weapons and tactics of the Rd army during the 70/80 timeline would be more advanced and sophisticated than that of America a decade before. This is why I give the win to the Taliban.

TALIBAN  BEATS VIETCONG