Why Americans say that they've never lost a war when they lost Vietnam's war ?

Answer 1

Technically, the US never declared war on Vietnam, so it remains a 'conflict.'

Answer 2

You know what? I really hate it when people say that no one ever really wins a war. These are the same people that say war never solves anything. Yes you can, and yes it does.The fact is, we didn't lose Vietnam in the traditional sense. We won nearly every tactical battle fought, gained ground, killed more of the enemy and all that good stuff. We "lost" the war by not winning it quickly enough.

In the traditional military sense, North Vietnam had no chance in Hell of defeating the United States. So instead of defeating us in pitched battles, they took away our will to fight. I mean "our" as in the American people, not the military. The country's morale became so low that it was no longer willing to support military action, and public opinion forced the politicians to pull the military out for fear of losing the precious positions.

The armed forece of the US did not lose Vietnam. The American people simply lost their will to support it.

Answer 3

Because technically the Vietnam War wasn't really a "war" here in the US. It was a "police action." The US hasn't been in a real "war" since WW II (if you don't count the Iraq war), it technically takes an act of congress to start a real "war." If we didn't have a war, but a police action that we didn't win, that doesn't really count as having lost a war.

Answer 4

It's really more stubborness than anything else. Technically you don't 'lose' a war until your capital has been raided and you've signed a surrender treaty. Since that didn't really happen in the Vietnam War it wasn't technically a loss, even though America obviously didn't achieve the desired result

Answer 5

Because we're arrogant.

Besides, we're AMERICA, who's gonna question us? We've pretty much kicked the a** of everyone on the planet at one point or another. lol.

We don't like to talk about Vietnam unless the liberals are trying to make some kind of crazy illogical comparison. But yea, we didn't do so well there. Mainly because the government wouldn't let the soldiers do their job. If the government would have let them, we'd have kicked their a** too.

Answer 6

Technically the situation in Viet Nam was not a war,that is to say, no war was ever formally declared. Further the US forces withdrew from Viet Nam by their own volition, not by force, nor terms of surrender.

An interesting aside is that Viet Nam was refereed to as a " Police Action ", and it is important in continuing history and law because it is looked at as the expansion of Presidential Power to engage foreign situations in the name of national security, a power otherwise that is vested only in the Congress!

Answer 7

AHH vietnam. Agent orange, naplam, and death. Why did we invade vietnam? to stop the spread of the "EVIL COMMUNISTS" or was it to show support for imperial powers like France and England. Ho Chi Min is one of my heros, he led his people to a better life. the U.S. invading was probably the best thing that could have happened to them. It taught them to stand up against oppression and tyranny. I'm glad the U.S. "lost" this conflict. It has made me reflect upon my self and see what is truley right and wrong. I am a better person because of the vietnam war. Oh and the U.S. did "lose" this battle.

Answer 8

Because Tatically speaking the American's didn't lose. Stragetically at the political level yes they may have lost. However, overwhelming fire power of the us military on the battlefield was proven victorious over and over again in Vietnam.

Answer 9

this is with regard to the definition of "conflict". Congress needs to declare conflict formally to confirm that some thing to be a conflict, in accordance to our government. Vietnam, Korea, etc have been "police strikes", meaning a conflict that became not declared so by ability of Congress. The Bay of Pigs became a failed action of the CIA. The invasion of Canada became basically a small marketing campaign in an more suitable conflict. and of direction the Civil conflict wasn't lost by ability of america of a federal government... it became lost by ability of a rustic that by no ability have been given off the floor, the accomplice States of united states of america.

Answer 10

This is an interesting question, because I learned they lost the War, but here in USA, they all believe they won. Maybe they are been touch wrong.