Well, the perspective you present is what I got in the news while growing up and what I was taught at the university. I was born in ‘64, so a little to young to have been a participant (at least on the American side).
It’s NOT what I’m getting from Lewis Sorley’s _A Better War_, which covers 1968-1975 and which I’m reading right now, or what I gleaned from Moyars _Triumph Forsaken_.
lol..so who you gonna believe?
we have plenty of Vietnam vets here maybe they can answer..