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Originally Posted by sunb! USA lost Vietnam and the Vietnam War, but the veterans are still fighting. |
How so? The NVA and VC lost most battles, the Tet Offensive was just them hoping to pull off another Den Ben Phu.
The U.S. won every major battle, we dominated the land, besides it wasn't just our war the Aussies and Korean's where there too.
Most civilians don't see that Veitnam could have been and was won as a tactical military battle. The real battle was political.
I think that for every US soldier that died ten NVA and VC died. (Not actual numbers, just my opinion.) |
A war is not only about winning battles and gaining land areas, it is about those who fought and died, those who fought and are still alive and what really came out of the conflict in the political aftermath.
The US evacuated Saigon abandoning the country into communist hands. And this was exactly what they hoped to avoid.
The domino theory: If Vietnam fell under communist rule the rest of SE Asia would follow. This did not happen to that exact point but Vietnam did invade Cambodia the following years and the US could not do a
to avoid that either. Thanks to Thailand the US still had a foot in the theatre but barely that.
If you look into studies on Vietnam Veterans you fill find some very interesting materials on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, suicide, alcoholism and drug abuse - the war is over but many thousand veterans are still fighting Vietnam in their own mind.
In my humble opinion the US ran out of Vietnam defeated.