The Vietnam war that occupied the 1960's was the longest and probably most ineffective wars America has ever fought. Over the course of several presidencies, America wages war in Vietnam in order lay out their containment policy on communism, but never truly succeeded in victory. The Vietnam war was ultimately a failure for the following reasons:
On the American side- Unorganized government at home, no real strategy, lack of total support towards the end, inability to close out.
In Vietnam- Inability to effectively fight the Viet Cong was the biggest part, poor awareness of area, lack of support kinda, lack of knowledge of where to really strike.
It's also important to keep in mind that the overall failure of the war revealed to the Americans how deceived they had been, which ultimately had very negative effects on government popularity.
This is avery good summary of the Vietnam War. I agree that the war was ultimately a failure for the same reasons. It also could have been that the Americans did not want to get to involved because they feared the Soviets, but in doing so they did not give enough support to Vietnam to actually make a difference making their involvement pointless.
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ReplyDeleteIt's also probable that the US lost due to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese being willing to take any casualty to win the war. In the end, the Americans had no motivations to win while the Vietnamese were willing to bear any price to win, as well as the lack of knowledge the Americans had of Vietnam, which the Viet Cong used to their advantage over both the French and Americans.
ReplyDeleteI think what hurt the American people the most was the fact that they believed that the Americans were easily winning the war and that nothing was wrong. The government was so ashamed of how they had conducted the war that they couldn't come to wraps of telling their people.
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