Extremely versatile war:
1. First use of SAC B52 bomber in combat
2. First super-sonic aerial dog-fights
3. Last use of an all gun battleship in war (USS New Jersey)
4. First combat for an Airborne or Amphibious tank(s) (US-M551 Sheridan/NVA-PT76)
5. First mass use of air to air missiles in aerial combat
6. First Anti-tank missile combat use for US (TOW) and communists (SAGGER)
7. First Assault Rifle war (M16s and AK47s)
8. First Helicopter War
9. First Attack Helicopter
10. Last war fought by US WWII Veterans
11. Last war fought by men
#1) The US should have helped the French to fight it out.
#2) It was wrong of the US to get involved without the UN's military involvement.
#3) The US Military should have recruited more aliens seeking citizenship.
#4) The US should have used death row inmates to fulfill suicide missions.
#5) The A-Bomb would have shortened the war considerably (even a small one).
#6) Politicians should not get involved in making military decisions, without enlisting their own sons and daughters first.
#7) More attention to drug re-habilitation and/or re-enrty to civilian life should have been given the US military participants.
#8) Agent Orange should never have been used south of the DMZ.
#9) The activities of spies and other users of espionage against the US should have been brought to light - and to trial.
#10) Haiphong Harbor, once mined, should NOT have been 'un-mined'.
And the REAL #1 personal opinion) I am glad I missed it.
The above opinions are solely my own, please add your own below.
That's an opinion. Some people think it was World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, the Revolutionary War, and possibly the Civil War.
Air war over North Vietnam. Ground war in South Vietnam; Riverine war in South Vietnam.
Yes. Vietnam was a French colony. They lost a Vietnam War and were thrown out of Vietnam before America tried to win a war in Vietnam. America also lost a Vietnam War.
The Vietnam war from 1959 to 1975.
Vietnam War is a civil war because it was North Vietnam vs South Vietnam.
As was the American people, the UN was divided on the Vietnam War.
because they were dump
IT WAS CONSIDERED ILLEGAL BECAUSE SOUTH VIETNAM NEVER DECLARED WAR ON NORTH VIETNAM AND VISA VERSA IT WAS A CIVIL WAR AND THE U.S. SHOULD NEVER GOT INVOLVED IN THEIR OPINION
The military draft would interfere with their personal lives.
it helped to get public opinion.
This is your personal opinion.
It lowered morale.
it took resources away from social reform.
That's an opinion. Some people think it was World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, the Revolutionary War, and possibly the Civil War.
The anti-war protesters of the Vietnam era had a personal stake in their protest...they might get drafted! Today's protester doesn't have that personal stake.
it took resources away from social reform.
J. Richard Watkins has written: 'Vietnam, no regrets' -- subject(s): American Personal narratives, Personal narratives, American, Vietnam War, 1961-1975