Jolthig wrote:Novus America wrote:Vietnam was entirely winnable. We just did it wrong.
Yeah. We hardly knew the terrain over there. Plus, the guerillas used that to their advantage.
The trick party with Vietnam was that we were fighting a guerrilla war AND a real war against a state actor. The problem is we sat on the defensive, gave the North Vietnamese the imitative.
We should have invade North Vietnam up to the Mu Gia Pass (the key to the whole Ho Chi Minh trail). We should have focused on fighting the North Vietnamese and left the ARVN to fight the Viet Cong, with us providing special operations, air and artillery support, but not our infantry.