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I'll piggyback onto the (excellent) answers here by noting that a common saying among historians of the war is that the only thing more hated than the Vietnam War was the anti-Vietnam War movement. It was entirely possible to think that the war was a total waste and that it should end, while at the same time not feeling too warm about the ...
There are debates still today as to when the Vietnam War began and when one should consider the conflict to have ended. In the end, however, it is all technicalities. It is far to say that the Vietnam War ended in 1973 since the name, the Vietnam War, refers exclusively to the American intervention.
The U.S. lost Vietnam from a multitude of factors. First of all, the public support for the war was increasingly low by the end of the war. The first major instance of America entering into Vietnam was around 1964-65 after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The Gulf of Tonkin incident has been a speculated event from LBJ wanting to simply win re ...
In 1975 with the defeat of the South by the North. Vietnam had been at war for decades. There was a Vietnamese resistance movement before World War 2 fighting French colonial occupation. The during World War 2 they had to fight the occupation of Japan. When World War 2 ended, The French assumed they would simply regain colonial control. However the Vietnamese resisted and comprehensively ...
No, they didn't. The French during the Algerian War did. The French Army in the Algerian War (1954-1962) pioneered the use of airmobile tactics in the use of counterinsurgency. The French Army went from having one helicopter in 1954 to 82 in 1957 and 400 in 1960.
I think it's a misconception to say the Vietnam War was about Vietnam. The whole point of the Domino theory is one Domino knocks over another. The fact that India, a much larger and important Domino didn't fall to Communism could be seen as a victory. also U.S. goods and services trade with Vietnam totaled an estimated $92.2 billion in 2020.
The conference, which also tried but failed to bring an end to the Korean conflict, determined that Vietnam would be divided into North and South until elections could be held. The United States, however, never signed the agreement and instead worked to prevent a complete takeover of Vietnam by the Soviet Union's Communist allies in Hanoi.
And like most stereotypes, there is a grain of truth to it. Certainly some fraggings did happen as a result of excessively gung-ho officers. But scholars of the war tend to agree that what mostly lay at the root of fragging was a general degradation of morale and esprit de corps among many US troops. Basically, after the Tet Offensive of 1968 ...
The US never invaded North Vietnam and found a defense war from South Vietnam. Had the US invaded North Vietnam, they likely would have won the invasion phase, but the insurgency would have been worse. It would have given PRC and USSR more of an excuse to get involved, and, in the PRC’s case, openly send troops like Korea.
The way the war was fought in Vietnam was a cluster in so many ways. But one thing that we did get out of it was to show the Soviets that we were committed to the doctrine of the Domino Theory. By fighting a proxy war in Vietnam we probably prevented another war in another country, or more direct confrontation.