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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prasadana2" data-source="post: 4571137" data-attributes="member: 4664">The United States neither lost nor won the Vietnam War.Here are some facts:The US Armed Forces won 27 battles total whereas the North Vietnamese/Viet Cong won a mere 15 battles throughout the course of the war.The US invasion of Cambodia was a success.Deadly chemical warfare was a big advantage that the Americans possessed and used quite effectively.The Americans killed more Vietnamese than the Vietnamese killed Americans. Of this, 58,000 Americans died whereas 1.1 million North Vietnamese were slaughtered.Technically, the USA did not lose the Vietnam War from a military stand point. They did quite well actually. However, the war was lost in a political sense due to early American withdrawal, therefore leaving the war to the South Vietnamese who could not repel the North Vietnamese invasion. Simply put, the Republic of Vietnam did not want to defend and fight for their country after the USA left in 1973. Hence the nail was hammered into the coffin on April 30, 1975 in what is known as the Fall of Saigon. We can also blame the media such as NBC, ABC, and CBS for being traitors and for siding with the enemy. Drumming up anti-war protests contributed to a long-term strategic failure.If the Americans had stayed the course and had not bowed to anti-war pressure at home from the hippies, the war would have been a guaranteed success. A lesson learned.</blockquote>

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