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Vietnam (Reasons for failure in Vietnam (Problems in Vietnam, Tactics and…
Vietnam
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US tactics
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They targeted Vietcong supply lines, North Vietnamese production lines where badly damaged
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The cost of bombing was huge $100,000 to kill one Vietcong troop
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They used things like agent orange which killed the trees in the forest to expose the Vietcong fighters
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The US troops would fly out in helicopters to known Vietcong bases quickly get dropped off destroy them and leave
An issue with this is that the Vietnamese where prepared to die and kept on getting replaced so would just take back the area
Vietcong tactics
The Vietcong had 170,000 soldier with weapons supplied by the USSR
The USA had 500,000 troops
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How they got involved
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Diem was very corrupt put in his relatives in places of power and refusing to hold elections. And because of thistle north began guerrilla warfare against the south government
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The US started by only giving supplies, money and advice but from 1961 they sent 16,000 US advisers and military troops
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In response the US had 500,000 troops in Vietnam
The origins of the war
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The French army was defeated by Communists at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and a peace treaty was signed and the French pulled out of Vietnam
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US withdrawal
With the problems bellow all 1968 political parties campaigning realised that they had to end the war. Richard Nixon began to think of ways to end the war without being truly defeated (he came up with Vietnamization)