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A 5 page research paper that investigates why the US lost the Vietnam War. The writer argues that while the US saw Vietnam as a limited conflict, the Vietnamese were more then prepared emotionally, if not in resources, to fight an all-out war. Also, and quite ironically, analysis shows that the US lost this war for much the same reasons that the US won the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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for the country to see this episode in perspective and objectively, but recent scholarship in this area offers some insightful observations. Drawing largely from the analysis offered by Drew and
Snow (2001), an examination of the causes behind this US military loss demonstrates that these causes are multiple. However, as the following discussion will demonstrate, the primary cause behind
the US failure to protect South Vietnam was due to, first of all, to not appreciating the differences inherent in how the US and the North Vietnamese approached this conflict.
While the US saw Vietnam as a limited conflict, the Vietnamese were more then prepared emotionally, if not in resources, to fight an all-out war. Also, and quite ironically,
analysis shows that the US lost this war for much the same reasons that the US won the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. In combating the North Vietnamese, the
US faced a "highly dedicated, nationalistic force employing unconventional, guerrilla warfare strategies and tactics" (Drew and Snow, 2001, 7A). Just as the American colonies faced a far superior military force
when the US went to war against Great Britain, the North Vietnamese, likewise, faced one of the greatest military powers on earth by going against the US. However, like
colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "home court" advantage. Also, like the British did in 1776, the US deployed a standard European-style
army, and never fully appreciated the nationalistic sentiment that motivated their enemy (Drew and Snow, 2001, 7A). In other words, the US forces felt that they were fighting communism.
However, the North Vietnamese did not see themselves as fighting for communism. Rather, the North Vietnamese saw themselves as fighting an European invader that would deny them the right to
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