How did the United States lose the war in Vietnam?

How did the United States lose the war in Vietnam?

They didn't use mules.

Successful propaganda/subversion campaign by the KGB on the home front.

We pretty much won but the media made it look like we were getting our asses kicked so we left do to pr the North Vietnamese later said they had no idea why we left when they were defeated

They didn't you fuck. They murdered 2 million people, murdered whole bunch in some surrounding countries, built additional bases and commands in asia.

Saying they lost is 100% pro imperial propaganda. Trying to make you think their empire needs more money and weapons to "win".

Because they ragequit.

This.
We won basically, but then lost support from the people and pulled out.

We didn't lose it, dumbass. The shirt I'm wearing has a tag with "Made in Vietnam" on it. Capitalism, dude. It's American. We won.

The war was a prolonged effort to keep the fighting going as long as possible to put a drain on the Soviet economy.

No one lost or won, the US has only been managing wars after WW2, not trying to win.

So if you kill your enemies... They win?

Fucking hippies.

Also capitalism won in the end. The only way you can say America lost the war is by claiming that it's because communism overtook democratic South Vietnam. Look how that ended up.

We didn't lose at all. In fact, we won. No communist nation produced any product that anybody in the west would like to buy. Communism was totally effective at eliminating any country that followed it as an economic competitor.

If we would have won, we would probably be watching Vietnamese TVs and driving around in Vietnamese cars. Communism eliminated a potential Asian economic competitor quite nicely.

How do you define win? Get absolutely butt fucked for years with the US just fighting a counterinsurgency because you're not powerful enough to fight them head on, and the US finally leaves due to political pressure? That doesn't sound like a win to me, but ok.

We lost against the Northern Vietnamese army funded with billions of dollars by the USSR, even then we still killed them over 5:1.

....You realize that this was a huge win for capitalism in the end right? It is a huge win.

Traitooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

Empathy and morality. We were too afraid to strategically bomb their cities into the dirt, and we let reporters video and photograph everything.

russian logistics and stragedy

>win war
>sign paris peace accords to cease all hostilities
>have all military evacuated
>north storms in and decimates Vietnam years later and claims it as a victory

Gee, that took long to figure out.

>How did the United States lose the war in Vietnam

US didn't use mech.
This is the huge mistake.

hippies

>we won basically
Except for the part where you didn't. At all. Not even close.

>How did the United States lose the war in Vietnam

US troops didn't drink Monster Energy.
This is the BIG mistake.

>Crates of unwanted SKS rifles
>drain the economy of THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL SUPERPOWER IN GLOBAL HISTORY

>How did the United States lose the war in Vietnam

US didn't know the power of planetary bombardment.

USA losing 50k men compared to vietkangs who lost around 1.2 mill. yea we lost that war senpai

But that's wrong you filthy leaf.

1: We weren't allowed to invade North Vietnam since we didn't want to draw China into the war and risk WWIII. So we couldn't conquer the North outright and end the war and were forced to fight a guerilla war of attrition for over a decade.

2: The Vietnamese people were determined to go commie, they saw the US as foreign oppressors following in the footsteps of the French and not even the South Vietnamese believed in the corrupt South Vietnamese government. So we were fighting to prop up a government that no one wanted.

3: The American people didn't give a fuck about Vietnam. We instituted the draft for a war on the other side of the planet to keep one group of jungle gooks from conquering another group of jungle gooks and after a decade of that shit and over 50,000 American lives lost the American people demanded their government end the war.


We killed like ten of their soldiers for every one we lost; but it didn't matter because for every one we killed another took their place and we had no path to victory other than hoping that the Vietnamese got tired of getting killed before we did. The war was unwinnable.

ISIS = few hundrew Vietnamese