What do you mean by fighting it "properly"?
1. Politicians run America; without them who would?
2. "Properly?" Do you mean fight Vietnam WITHOUT restrictions...atomic bombs? Invading NORTH Vietnam? Because that's certainly what it means!
3. The primary mission of the Vietnam War was stopping communist expansion (aggession) and NOT HAVING A NUCLEAR WAR while doing it.
They tried to stave off Malaria.
They were drafted.
Indirectly. Vietnam for example was the U.S. indirectly fighting Russia who supplied Vietnam.
When Afghanistan jet fighters are fighting US jet fighters. When Afghanistan tanks are fighting US tanks. When Afghanistan warships are fighting US warships. When Afghanistan soldiers are fighting US soldiers. Then it will be like Vietnam. Right now, it just a law enforcement issue; finding terrorists, arresting them, or terminating them.
They were either helpingVietnamese people getting to safety or helping injured people
The Americans used a process called Vietnamization to pull their troops out of Vietnam. South Vietnamese soldiers slowly took over the jobs of American soldiers in Vietnam in order to get troops out without causing much of a dramatic change.
US Servicemen were fighting regular (NVA) soldiers and airmen from the North Vietnamese Army, Air Force, and Navy (Tonkin Gulf Incident). US Servicemembers are NOT fighting the Iraqi Air Force, Army, or Navy.
The Vietnam war effected soldiers physically with strain of fighting in the jungle but it also effected soldiers psychological mind set. Soldiers were pulled out of school and work at the age of 17 and thrown into the war. The soldiers had to drink and smoke marijuana to deal with the war. It was hard for soldiers to come back for war and make a life.
living conditions of Vietnam soldiers
that's ridiculous there have been many Jewish soldiers who have died fighting there were no Jewish soldiers killed in that war. Need to know the Number of Jewish soldiers killed in Vietnam, Korean War, and Iraq.
North Vietnamese soldiers were referred to as the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) by the GI's in Vietnam, during the war. Southern Communist soldiers living in South Vietnam and fighting in South Vietnam, were called the Viet Cong (VC).
Humid, sweaty, boring, no hygiene (no baths, toilets, showers), no hot food, and no female companionship.