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An 11 page discussion of the manner in which American counterinsurgency tactics were hampered by politics during the Vietnam War. The author of this paper contends that while the U.S. military was fully capable of winning in Vietnam, their hands were tied by political decisions which occurred back home and, in fact, by a biased liberal press. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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American involvement in the Vietnam War resulted in what is one of the deepest and still-festering scars ever rendered on American pride. That involvement
resulted in one of the most miserable failures ever in American history. This failure, however, cannot be blamed on the American military itself. Indeed, American troops at the
time comprised one of the most efficient military forces in the world. Our failure in Vietnam relates to the political intervention which was rampant at the time. Although
the American military definitely had the capability of outmaneuvering and outpowering the Viet Cong, the American political environment made it impossible for us to win the war. Although the
accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive and the North Vietnamese Army was defeated time and time again
on the battlefield, our political leaders repeatedly undermined the efforts of our military. This political undermining in effect compromised our in-country counterinsurgency tactics and occurred from the bargaining table
to withholding aid at critical times in the war. Eventually Americans were forced to abandon the country as a defeated force who had been defeated not as much by
a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play in determining American counterinsurgency tactics in Vietnam. The
Vietnam War was not a result of an aggressive North Vietnam invading South Vietnam but instead of a complexity of interrelated factors. Many of these factors relate to outside
involvement. It was a war, in fact, which was necessitated by the global struggle of the Cold War (Lind, 1999b). To the conventional American way of thinking the
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