how many died in the vietnam war
2007-03-22 00:24:05 · 4 answers · asked by jrdnwelling 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
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2007-03-24 03:29:31 · answer #1 · answered by christopher r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time limits the amount of detail one can go into in this particular forum but here in a nutshell is what happened in the Vietnam war. South Vietnam was a democratic government and North Vietnam was Communist/Socialist. The North invaded the South with the aide of Russia & China. Originally, France was helping the South but got their heads handed to them. America got involved to rescue the French.
It pretty much esclated to full American involvement under President Johnson. Under his administration the numbers of U.S. troops exploded. The problem was Johnson was running a politically correct war from Washington. This resulted in one bad decision after another. Military action was being planned with no partciular strategy. There are countless examples of many American lives being lost taking an objective only to immediately abandon that objective. This is how America won every battle but lost the war.
Johnson did not seek re-election and Nixion was elected. He abandoned Johnson's policy and began to bomb strategic targets in North Vietnam such as Hanoi, the capital.
This forced the North back to the negotiation table and a cease fire was reached. Nixon agreed to withdraw our troops if the North stayed out of the South. But when we pulled our troops out the Democratic Congress cut off the funding and we could not resume the war when the North ignored the agreement and invaded the South again.
This is the same thing the Democrats in Congress want to do in Iraq. They want the President to "redeploy" the troops to some other country where they can respond in force if needed but instead, they will cut funding so we cannot return to Iraq. This provides cover since they can claim they did not cut funding to the troops in battle.
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2007-03-22 01:02:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-03-22 04:45:46 · answer #3 · answered by Melissa S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure was,
US lost about 54,000, and 150,000 injured,
Vietnam on our side, lost 230,000 with 300,000 injured,
other alles lost about 6,000 with 15,000 injured....
Bad vietnams lost 1,200,000 and probably just as many injured.
2007-03-22 00:58:49 · answer #4 · answered by James R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋