What went wrong with Vietnam? Was it all the protests and hippies reducing morale for soliders...

What went wrong with Vietnam? Was it all the protests and hippies reducing morale for soliders? Or was Vietnam just a shitty place to be in combined with viet kong guerilla tactics?

America lost due to politics. Even the North Vietnamese later said they were getting their ass kicked militarily.

>Why did America lose the war in Vietnam
Because of public backlash, limited warfare, and us generally not being willing to go back and defend South Vietnam post peace treaty.
>Did the war go well?
It went better than most people like to admit; the Vietcong were close to breaking after the Tet offensive, support on the opposing front was lukewarm, and generally if the war continued as it had at its height, it probably would have resulted in an American victory or higher infighting amongst the North Vietnamese...

LSD and heroin were widely abused in the nam...and no one wanted to be there

The Vietnam war was never designed to be winnable. It was intentionally made a quagmire to keep selling military equipment and to smuggle heroin out of the golden triangle.

Thats it. This was a helicopters and heroin war. It was never won because winning isnt the intention.

Bunch of our boys went over and got addicted to drugs. They brought back this addiction and from there we entered the downward spiral of disregarding morality and abandoning the American dream.

Opium war for money.

Vietnam was wrong from the start. Like 99% of the wars in the last 100 years, it did not require US involvement.

>overall legal and political clusterfuck
>Vietnam conflict wasn't legally even a war, since war was never declared by congress, leading to a bunch of shit such as war crimes not being punished and severely limited strategy
>search and destroy tactics led to a long, drawn-out, high-casualty war of attrition that the American public wasn't happy with
>1960s being the beginning of the end of traditionalism and nationalism, with thousands of faggot yuppies taking to the streets to throw tomatoes at returning soldiers and crying about the government being evil in a display of lack of respect for the military
>the populace didn't vilify communism as much as in the 1950s
>lots of pressure from the public to end the war, no one really knew the purpose of icing gooks in an irrelevant land thousands of miles away
>the first time the US military saw guerrilla warfare of this scale after almost solely conventional warfare since 1775
>public outrage back home, the draft, and the shit-poor conditions of Vietnam including humidity, huge insects and snakes led to poor morale
>limited warfare meant that the US could only kick the shit out of the NVA "just enough" so that they could recover and continue the war
pretty much everything went wrong.

Nixon found out about the oil. Ended.

This. Government didn't want to win. It existed to inflate the defense budget with the lives of GI as currency.

we stopped bombing North Vietnam

they were ready to surrender but we stopped the bombing, I'm 100% serious

the goal was impossible

>What went wrong with Vietnam?

The U.S. provided the NVA and VC with a sanctuary to train, recruit, and recover in in North Vietnam, and the border nations of south Vietnam.

If you aren't willing to chase your neighbor into his yard and kill him there, he's just going to keep coming back into your yard and fuck with you.

thank you.

Vietnamese didn't fuck around like it was summer camp

>Vietnam wants America's help because they thought they could be friends after WW1
>US tells Vietnam to fuck off
>Vietnam instead sides with the USSR years later to help them get rid of the French
>US gets pissed and use this as an opportunity to measure dicks with Russia
what the fuck?

>enemy does not wear a uniform.
>Was not all out war enough, needed to keep going like said.
>Public opinion

what a waste of good bombs, might as well burn down all the forests if you're gonna do things this sloppy

if we beheaded teachers and put their heads on poles on the street like the vietcong did, maybe it would have been different

Karma

People can't let bad ideas fail. The US should have let communism spread, and defeated it with their success.

Fuck doing LSD in a situation like that. Heroin sounds good though

They waited us out. Their will was stronger. We gave up.

TARDED LIVERALS TRUING WIN WAR WITH SOVIET, SAME IN SIRIA NOW

COSE SOVIET KILL TO MANY BOMBERS

(((Wartime))) loans
Sassoon family opium business

There was no path to U.S. victory. They could never take the fight into the North of Vietnam to stamp it out because of the fear of China becoming directly involved.

It was an unwinnable war

just like Korea, fucking commie bait

That was first ever war reported live and with next to no censorship. That was shoking to a general public, this made the difference, hippies alone couldn`t do anything.