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"In Vietnam the US military was fighting a war wherein there was no intention of winning. Any enemy of America will not restrict its military as the politicians did ours in Vietnam."

Wrong. When we first went there, we intended to win and we did not handcuff the military at first. We were still not winning. We had to adjust our tactics and increase the amount of fire (more men and bigger weapons) to start making advances. Then the higher ups decided to place limitations on the military.

"Nor was it true that there weren't organized military units from N. Vietnam fighting our forces as well as the paramilitary units used behind the lines."

Really? Who were we fighting then? They had both organized military units and "militias".

[justshutupandtakeit]

At all times the war was directed from Washington and before Johnson was fought almost entirely by CIA. There never was a good plan to win that I am aware of.

Not understanding who we were fighting didn't help.

[justshutupandtakeit]

A militia is not the same as Communist infiltrators trained and supplied from the North. Those cadres were hard core communist revolutionaries not local people. Nothing like a militia.