re: Could any strategy have worked in Vietnam?

I've done quite a bit of reading on this and I just started ken Burns doc on this.

The politicians fricked our men over. Period. The fact that they liked about the gulf of tonken incident that Drew us in should tell you. People should be tried with murder imo for the one that got so many of our people killed.

Air power being let loose would have echnaged the course of the war. The fact we could o my come in one way and bomb allowed them to concentrate what limited anti air power they had in one shooting gallery. frick that you let them do as they are trained and let the south Viet army fight the ground we would win.

Pull out all the stops. Wipe out their ports. Crush the ho chi trail. Act like you want to WIN the fricking thing. The north would have collapsed. No way in hell they would have lasted.

Guerrilla fighting would have been inevitable but I still feel like over time there would have e been a victory.

Much of the norths resolve was due to the idea America was an in another imperial conquest just like so many they dealt with before. Having their people on the ground I think would have been much better for optics and perhaps many of the guerrilla fighters would not have existed. The south looked like them because they were them.