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re: Why did the US lose the Vietnam War?
Posted on 1/16/22 at 7:16 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 1/16/22 at 7:16 pm to SaintlyTiger88
because Dak ran the ball
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Posted on 1/16/22 at 7:22 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Ken Burns' documentary on Vietnam explains it better than anything else can.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 8:31 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Because they got involved in another country's civil war.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 8:37 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Limited war.
Pure and simple.
Pure and simple.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 9:38 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Cocky Military-Industrial Complex. SEATO. Plus Walter Cronkite said the war was unwinable. I remember viewing the broadcast when Cronkite went traitor. That miserable SOB Cronkite turned public opinion against the war.
Years later North Viet Nam General Gap admitted that due to the effectiveness of the Nixon bombing campaign North Viet Nam was on the verge of calling a truce to negotiate an end to the war. America had beaten them. Then we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Sickening actually. 50 thousand plus young men died.......for nothing. A couple were my friends. One was a HS classmate. The irony? Viet Nam is now friends with the USA. Good trading partner. The USA went downhill from there. Desert Storm being the exception.
But that defeat in Viet Nam pales to insignificance when compared to the disaster that awaits the USA with this potato in the Oval Office.
Just remember this Biden groupies. Elections have consequences.
Years later North Viet Nam General Gap admitted that due to the effectiveness of the Nixon bombing campaign North Viet Nam was on the verge of calling a truce to negotiate an end to the war. America had beaten them. Then we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Sickening actually. 50 thousand plus young men died.......for nothing. A couple were my friends. One was a HS classmate. The irony? Viet Nam is now friends with the USA. Good trading partner. The USA went downhill from there. Desert Storm being the exception.
But that defeat in Viet Nam pales to insignificance when compared to the disaster that awaits the USA with this potato in the Oval Office.
Just remember this Biden groupies. Elections have consequences.
This post was edited on 1/17/22 at 9:10 am
Posted on 1/16/22 at 10:55 pm to Kjnstkmn
And 50,000+ Americans wouldn’t have been killed.
Posted on 1/17/22 at 3:33 am to Zarkinletch416
Realistically we never had to lose a single plane over Hanoi, not one. Hanoi was not a necessary target.
We should have given the Chinese and Russians an ultimatum to get their ships out of Haiphong, then brought in big gun naval vessels and destroyed the place. We still had heavy cruisers and battleships enough to blow the place to dust.
Then mined it to the point it could not be used.
Use the USAF and naval air to destroy roads rail and any thing that could be used to move anything south. From the Chinese border on down in Laos and Cambodia too. Make the Ho Chi Minh Trail a death walk. Forget Hanoi let them sit behind their SAM belt. Starve the bastards. Wipe out the rice crops. Defoliate North Vietnam. Let them eat mud.
You can't feed that many people and run a war moving supplies on bicycles, cant do it. Especially when we strafe the bicycles.
We should have given the Chinese and Russians an ultimatum to get their ships out of Haiphong, then brought in big gun naval vessels and destroyed the place. We still had heavy cruisers and battleships enough to blow the place to dust.
Then mined it to the point it could not be used.
Use the USAF and naval air to destroy roads rail and any thing that could be used to move anything south. From the Chinese border on down in Laos and Cambodia too. Make the Ho Chi Minh Trail a death walk. Forget Hanoi let them sit behind their SAM belt. Starve the bastards. Wipe out the rice crops. Defoliate North Vietnam. Let them eat mud.
You can't feed that many people and run a war moving supplies on bicycles, cant do it. Especially when we strafe the bicycles.
This post was edited on 1/17/22 at 3:36 am
Posted on 1/17/22 at 3:37 am to SaintlyTiger88
Because the only thing worse than being at war is being halfway at war.
Posted on 1/17/22 at 9:00 am to ForeverEllisHugh
Because the only thing worse than being at war is being halfway at war.
Yep. Plus it doesn't help when you fly the LGBT flag in front of your embassy in a staunchly Muslim country.
Don't get me started.
Yep. Plus it doesn't help when you fly the LGBT flag in front of your embassy in a staunchly Muslim country.
Don't get me started.
Posted on 1/17/22 at 9:42 am to ItTakesAThief
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Terrain.
Failure to bomb North Vietnam into the Stone Age like we did German and Japan.
Also did not attack staging areas in Laos and Cambodia.
We dropped more tonnage in the Vietnam War than we did in Europe against Germany.
We did have secret bombings in Laos and Cambodia and we in fact invaded Cambodia. Didn't make any difference
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