I recently did a search of newspaper archive on my unit in Viet Nam for the time I was there.
What I read surprised me. The newspapers were reporting as it happened where the units were, the size of the units what their goal was along with casualties.
How hard would it have been for the Soviets to send copies to North Viet Nam?
I have now come to the conclusion we were never suppose to “win” the war. Viet Nam was a proxy war, designed to bleed the communist nations. Our leaders were willing to spend money and the other side was willing to spend blood.
In this case, with a fifth column working in our nation, the side wiling to do a rope a dope won that war.
I will leave it to historians to decides if the strategy was the correct one, and in the end who won the ideological war since all our elite leaders as well as the main stream media appear to be socialist, I suspect we lost that war as well.
Recommended reading...”An American Amnesia: How The US Congress Forced The Surrender of SVN and Cambodia” by Bruce Herschenson...
After our troops obliterated the Viet Cong as a fighting force and fought the NVA to a standstill, the actions of the 94th Congress betrayed the troops, their sacrifices, our gains and the SVN people...
We didn’t “lose” the war, it was won militarily...The SVN needed the military assistance the US promised them to secure their right to self-determination...
And then the Leftist-controlled 94th Congress betrayed that victory and handed the North everything it couldn’t win on the battlefield...
Check it out and see what you think...