[2banana]

Give War A Chance: Could we have won Vietnam?

Of course we could have (The US military did not lose one battle in Vietnam):

1. Invade North Vietnam
2. Invade Laos and cut the Ho Chi Min trail
3. Use SF to train up indigenous forces to the Nth degree

[SauronOfMordor]

Another suggestion: bomb the dikes in the North just before rice harvest, and otherwise disrupt their ability to grow food. They can't make war if they're too busy trying to feed their own people

[Austin Willard Wright]

4. Defeat several million screaming Chinese "volunteers" fresh from their Cultural Revolution exploits. Don't think so.

[drc43]

"Of course we could have (The US military did not lose one battle in Vietnam):..."

Actually, I have a Time Life Series on Aircraft, that begins with Viet Nam. Even here, there is an the acknowledgement that we never lost this war...we gave it away.

I believe firmly that Walter Cronkite was a direct contributer to the ultimate outcome of this tradgedy. Too bad he was never called to account for it.