I have always thought (of course, without evidence to support this position) that the results in Viet Nam would have been far different if the troops had been told there was no countdown on a one year tour, but that they would stay (with brief R&R breaks) until they won the war.
Thank you too. It's been nice talking to you.
In Vietnam, we conducted a very strange war.
Why didn't we take out Hanoi's leadership? Whe didn't we warn Hanoi citizens to depart the city, and then level it? Why didn't we pick other cities one by ond and just utterly destroy the north?
We could have won that war in a couple of years or less. We tried to play by Marques of Queensburry rules and proved once and for all, that when it comes to war, it's destroy or be destroyed.
We lost 55,000 troops. Johnson and McNamara should have been strung up. McCarthy would have had a hay day going after communists in the 60s and 70s.
We'd have a lot more sound nation today if he had.
Thanks again.
You take care.