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The Vietnam War: a series of huge tactical wins for the US that lead to an overall strategic failure. Very few wars in history end that way.
by tha0xb3 5y ago
The Vietnam War: a series of huge tactical wins for the US that lead to an overall strategic failure.
Very few wars in history end that way.
- nemo44x 5y agoMore or less. The Tet Offensive was crushed and had Saigon supporting troops pushed into the North quickly, there’s a chance the war would have ended differently. The North was massively depleted at this point. But the political and propaganda goals of the Tet Offensive worked and made the USA timid when it should have been aggressive. It was at this point that citizen support for the war began to fade quickly as the media incorrectly reported that VC were making progress and couldn’t be stopped, in essence unwittingly passing along the propaganda that VC hoped would spread. Not sure the outcome would have been different in the end though. The people were colonized by the French and then the Japanese and then the French again - the USA wasn’t looking like the great liberator.
- nsonha 5y agoNot saying I want that to have happened but the USA don't have colonies, in the traditional way that the French and the Japanese do