Vietnam war

>Why is it still such an open wound on the American psyche?
its not though.

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>Why did the army of an advanced, capitalist, militaristic nation capitulate by withdrawal to the Vietcong?
>Why is it still such an open wound on the American psyche?

The last time they BTFO a chingchong country bordering China, the chinks got involved in the war and started a zerg rush. This was in Korea. Vietnam borders China too.

The US didn't invade North Vietnam. They were fighting a defensive war on the ground. It was all down to attrition. By the end, the Viet Cong was largely made up of NVA troops infiltrated into the country and the Communists had lost way more manpower. But the US homefront turned against the long war and Nixon decided to pull out.

OP, Vietnam was an incredibly unpopular war by the majority of Americans, not just peace hippies.

It was a huge waste of money, time and lives. If we wanted to, we could wipe that current shitstain off the map of the planet.

I've worked with a lot of Vietnamese guys through a visa work program and 90% of them were uneducated and lazy, though they thought things such as the LED light was an amazing alien technology.
The other 10% had either an engineering degree that didn't mean shit in the US or an agricultural degree they couldn't find work with where they were from.

It's not an open wound for us. Our only "wound" right now is our government spending money on stupid shit and defunding everything that actually matters.

NASA, education, clean energy bills? More budget cuts. Military? Military has a 700 billion dollar budget for the year of 2017 alone. Our priorities are fucked.
Who the fuck is thinking about Vietnam?


Just another uneducated Britt cuck listening too closely to his community college cuck teacher.

The same reason Britain withdrew in from Ireland. They did not have the will of the people.

You cannot win a guerilla war without the hearts and minds of the native population on your side. Whereas a state army can be brought to heel and bombed and capitals can be invaded, fighting against a guerilla force is like punching a man made from smoke.
Of course you are the stronger opponent but you can never truly hit your adversary and every time you lash out there's a greater chance you will overreach and hit an innocent person.

Guerrilla forces gain strength from their respective countries. South Vietnam initially welcomed american forces with some hesitant skeptical optimism. By the end of the war the average Vietnamese person hated america and viewed the destruction wrought upon the now one country as an american doing. The initial reasons of invasion by North Vietnam being forgotten.

The word vietnam has become a synonym for "a personal hell" or "torturous process." And for good reason.

More vietnam veterans died of suicide due to the effects of PTSD than soldiers killed in Vietnam.

And that number hasn't stopped yet. Iy would be accurate to say it's an open wound because it was a war that did effect your country for generations.

Generations of abused spouses and mentally ill young men raising abused children to go on to raise abusive spouses and mentally ill children. The cycle continues.

We actually talk about this on /k/ atleast once a week from day/k/are kids. there are few points to to know

1) home field advantage. Vietnamese know how to deal with the Vietnamese tropical climate, Generic Joe from Tennessee does not.

2) spies and community goodwill. North Vietnam had a great spy network in Southern Vietnam. If there was a new troop deployment, the Southern Vietnamese hookers and Taxi drivers would hear it and sell the info to the North Vietnamese.

3) Force matching. we came in there expecting North Vietnamese to field Tanks, platoons and in organized fighting forces Similar to world war 2, while they were fighting a Guerilla war. they did to us what we did to the british in the revolutionary war.

4) no reason to be in Vietnam. Really, the most official reason they had was "To stop the spread of communism" when all it was was a third world dinkie little country in southeast asia with little exports and little strategic utility to the west. The investments into the region were not worth effort to take it.