[caisson71]

One correction. We didn't loose the VietNam war, we QUIT. Maybe we didn't have smart bombs or all this newer technology but we knew what we needed to do with what we had.

[eastforker]

Wrong,post 24,we never intended to win.We were not allowed to win.Vietnam was nothing more than a playground for our CIA,and our GI'S were the pawns.Please don't open that wound,too much scar tissue.

[in the Arena]

Great comment...indeed, we did not lose the war in South East Asia...

One interesting comment concerning "Smart bombs", it appears that they were in use in SEA...but probably not as technically advanced as the current crop...

From the book: THE PRICE OF EXIT by Tom Marshall.

"From 1965 to 1968 the U.S. Navy and Air Force lost ninety-seven aircraft unsuccessfully attempting to bring down the bridge at Thanh Hoa, the primary rail connector to China, which was the source of supplies and safe havens then just as it had been against the French. The Thanh Hoa was destroyed on the first run in December 1972 by a single, "smart" two-thousand pound bomb."