Why Did The Us Fail To Win The Vietnam War Case Study
Why did the U.S. fail to win the Vietnam War? As we all know, the Vietnam War was a colossal failure which American don’t want to mention any longer. In that period the United States had benefited from the World War II and had a rapid development in economy which made the U.S. become one of the most powerful country all over the world. So, why did the U.S. fail to win the Vietnam War with the strong strength? First, let us see a set of data from wiki.
“Between 1965 and 1975, the United States spent $111 billion on the war ($686 billion in FY2008 dollars). This resulted in a large federal budget deficit.More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam.”1 What does this data …show more content…
government had support the South Vietnam government to realize a kind of campaign mode “Team kill” for Vietnamese. But later it’s government was corrupt and greed so they failed to do anything. It’s not just the failure of this plan, in fact, the U.S..’s armed forces were “breakdown”.A journalist declared the break down.”A certain sense of independence, a reluctance to behave according to the military's insistence on obedience, like pawns or puppets...The grunts [infantrymen] were determined to survive...they insisted of having something to say about the making of decisions that determined whether they might live or die.”4 How could a distracted troop to win a war? Maybe it’s impossible.
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2.Taylor paraphrases Sun Tzu, The Art of War(U.K: Oxford University Press.1963
3Wikipedia,”Vietnam War”Online,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War(June 10 ,2016)
4.Shkurti, Willian J. , Soldiering o nin a Dying War:The True Story of the Firebase Pace Incidents and the Vietnam Drawdown(University of Kansas Press.2011).pp,95.
Of course it’s a colossal failure for the U.S. and an unjust war and we can not support it but we should realize the great significant of this war and understand the lessons from this war. This is what the history really bring to
“Between 1965 and 1975, the United States spent $111 billion on the war ($686 billion in FY2008 dollars). This resulted in a large federal budget deficit.More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam.”1 What does this data …show more content…
government had support the South Vietnam government to realize a kind of campaign mode “Team kill” for Vietnamese. But later it’s government was corrupt and greed so they failed to do anything. It’s not just the failure of this plan, in fact, the U.S..’s armed forces were “breakdown”.A journalist declared the break down.”A certain sense of independence, a reluctance to behave according to the military's insistence on obedience, like pawns or puppets...The grunts [infantrymen] were determined to survive...they insisted of having something to say about the making of decisions that determined whether they might live or die.”4 How could a distracted troop to win a war? Maybe it’s impossible.
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2.Taylor paraphrases Sun Tzu, The Art of War(U.K: Oxford University Press.1963
3Wikipedia,”Vietnam War”Online,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War(June 10 ,2016)
4.Shkurti, Willian J. , Soldiering o nin a Dying War:The True Story of the Firebase Pace Incidents and the Vietnam Drawdown(University of Kansas Press.2011).pp,95.
Of course it’s a colossal failure for the U.S. and an unjust war and we can not support it but we should realize the great significant of this war and understand the lessons from this war. This is what the history really bring to