Us Involvement In The Vietnam War

The United States failed to reach its goal in keeping South Vietnam a noncommunist country. The fear of the domino effect caused United States to feel obligated to intervene to help prevent Indochina from becoming Communist. They war was fought without a clear tactic. They continued to increase military aid, and stayed in the war knowing there was no end in sight. There was not enough volunteers so we had to draft many men to fight in the war causing riots and protest. Another problem was using guerilla style tactics in the war, causing no distinct objective. Causing more and more men to fight and loose there life. The United States was too focused on Vietnam’s economic problems rather than their own. United States goal was to contain Indochina and it was not a success causing Vietnam to become communist. Kennedy’s did not want to be embarrassed so refused to compromise with Vietnam, instead he chose to send more troops to Saigon. He sent in even more troops to train the Vietnam military. The United States continued to send as many troops as Saigon needed to protect themselves. When
Their government was corrupt, and they still had traditional attitudes. They attacked the USS Maddox, causing US to attack back. North Vietnam were losing more men than they could replenish. They were very determined and strong willed. They were willing to do whatever it took to keep to United Stated from making them anti-communist. Even if that meant losing countless about of men. They were willing to lose more lives than America was willing to lose. They agreed to cease fire, but then turn around and attacked the United States, while on the edge of politically collapsing. When they bombed the United States while in South Vietnam it pushed the US to start bombing missions on North Vietnam. Their plan was to get the US focused on the war it would not be able to gain political