need help on vietnam war?

Question

Why exactly did the us lose. cuz it did.

Answer 1

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I spent seven years of my life in the US military during the Vietnam fiasco.

To answer your question, the United States did not actually lose the Vietnam War, we lost our reason for fighting the war. We won every major battle and the vast majority of the lesser battles. Our military equipment and soldiers were far superior to those of the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. However, we were the aggressors who were attempting to take over their country, and they responded with a vigorous defense of their homeland just as the citizens of any other country would if their country was being taken over by a foreign power. That is why they were able to drive the United States military out of their country.

In 1964, President Johnson, and other political leaders at the time, made a dicision to greatly escalate the war. However, they never told us that the decision was based on a lie. The lie was that North Vietnamese gunboats had fired upon one of our war ships in international waters of the Gulf of Tokin which lies to the East of North Vietnam. Such an action, if it had actually happened, would have been an act of war as defined by international law.

As history proves, the incident never happened. It was made up to justify the deployment of hundreds of thousands of US troops to South Vietnam to fight the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong of South Vietnam. As a result of that lie, more than 58,000 US military soldiers were killed and tens of thousands more were severely wounded and maimed. And millions of Vietnamese citizens were killed and wounded, and their country was devastated.

Unfortunately, our political leaders never learned anything from our country's mistakes in Vietnam. Instead, they lied to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and because of those lies, thousands of US military soldiers have died and many thousands more have been severely wounded. And tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens have been killed and wounded, and their country's infrastructure has been devastated.

I am afraid that, unless God performs a miracle, our nation is going to suffer a greater defeat in Iraq than it did in Vietnam. Furthermore, not only did the US lose in Vietnam, but its policies in dealing with other Southeast Asian countries were soundly defeated. The same thing will happen when the US is ultimately forced to retreat from Iraq. And God has not performed any military miracles for a nation for a few thousand years.

Answer 2

The reason that the US lost the war but won many a battle in the Viet Nam war was because the Politicos got involved just like in Iraq. Any time a war is not really a "war" but a police action, then the politicians try and work it to appear to be something it is not. In Viet Nam we took ground and then were ordered to give it back. We performed the same missions over and over, ignoring the fact that the Viet Cong could retreat outside of the Viet Nam borders to resupply and regroup. We have the same thing happening in Iraq. The insurgents can cross the border into either Iran or Syria regroup and then re attack. We seem incapable of fighting a war with the ferocity and determination to win. We constantly are looking for "deals" that we can make and negotiate a settlement when the deals are always not in our favor.
If we declared a war we could have the full support of Congress and the American people and we would be able to win.

Answer 3

if u look at it from a technical point of view, we didn't really lose, it was just one big, useless tie.

but i think the u.s. lost. why? the main objective of the vietnam war was to contain communism. we didnt accomplish that because saigon still fell, and south vietnam along with it.
the major reason we backed out was because of the tremendous unpopularity of the war. Nixon called for "vietnamization", which is to gradually pull u.s. troops out while the south vietnamese military increases their combat roles. Nixon kept withdrawing forces out because of public protest and political pressure. the last forces left in 1973 and two years later, south vietnam fell. it's really sad, but im lucky my parents escaped in time =]

Answer 4

It was really not a U.S. war just exactly like the Iraqi war. Politics was the main reason it was scored as lost for the U.S.

Answer 5

Because we showed up

The Americans are and were morally inferior to the average Vietnamese.

We started that war on a lie and BEGGED to get out like the rotten cowards our politicians are.

Both LBJ and Nixon should have been hanged on the white house lawn

Answer 6

Well if your so sure that it did lose, then you should at least know why without having to ask. That means you are not doing your own research and are just listening to what you are told.

Answer 7

We fought on the enemy turf. The Vietnamese had the will to succeed. We don't have that but we have technology advanced and the enemy don't have technology.

Answer 8

people of the USA opposed it.

They would sacrifice themselves for their country.

They had alot of soldiers

They knew the terrain, and had hundreds if not thousands of miles of tunnel systems to fight out of.