MacArthur was right either wage the war for a quick decisive end or don't do it at all.
Two major blunders that turned victory into defeat during the war.
1. After the Tet offensive the war was over by all accounts. The Russians said so. The North Vietnamese said so. Everyone except one person. Walter Cronkite whom made it seems like the North Vietnamese won a major victory. This inspired the North to keep going.
Our mistake was not using military personal only as war reporters.
2. After our final pull out the South won the war it was over. They had the military strength the hold their ground no one contested that except our media. It was Ted Kennedy that pushed a bill through to cut funding for the South. The word alone disrupted the military in the south. Every division broke up except one.
One other point I think should have been done. The war was to stop communism. That should've been an all volunteer bases. If they couldn't get enough soldiers for the volunteer effort we had no business requiring kids to fight.
Communism is evil but it wasn't a national threat to keep them at bay. It wasn't a direct threat to the US.
I'll be sure to let Obama, Hillary, Bernie, Pelosi, Shumer, Antifa, Black Lives Matter know of this fine theory of yours.
Communism is evil but it wasn't a national threat to keep them at bay. It wasn't a direct threat to the US.
I'm glad you're not in charge of strategy...or at least I hope you're not.
Communism, like Nazism, needs to be defeated. They are opposite sides of the same coin.