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A 9 page essay which looks at the ending of the Vietnam War, but also examines some of the reasons why it so wrong for the U.S. to be involved due to the political situation of that time. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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60) Throughout the conflict the U.S. involvement was characterized by a failure to understand the motivating factors involved from a Vietnamese point of view, and also by just poor communication
in general. The Vietnam War was the first major conflict in which the U.S. was opposing a highly dedicated, nationalistic force which employed unconventional, guerilla warfare strategies and tactics,
and, more or less, refused to fight along conventional European lines. It is indeed ironic that the U.S. would have such difficulty against these tactics and seem so oblivious to
their tactical superiority when these are exactly the advantages that a fledgling U.S. used to gain independence from Great Britain during the eighteenth century. Instead, the U.S. followed the example
of Great Britain in 1776 and never fully appreciated the nationalistic movement it opposed. This speaks ill of the U.S. collective memory especially when it is considered that
the U.S. military had encountered this sort of action on other occasions after the Revolutionary War period. The Seminole War and several of the western Indian Wars entailed the same
sort of conditions. (Drew; Snow 60) The irony is further compounded by the fact that the U.S. Army didnt do particularly well in those encounters. A thousand Seminole Indians held
the U.S. Army off for two years with bows and arrows. (60) These lessons from history were largely ignored. American involvement was ended by two events. First, in March
of 1973, the last American combat troops were pulled out of the country which left only a skeleton military advisory presence. That presence ended when the last Americans left the
embassy in Saigon on helicopters on April 30, 1975. (Drew; Snow 60) The close of the war Beginning in the early 1970s, the U.S. began to slowly withdraw troops
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