Hot, Humid, Mosquitoes, Rats, Snakes, Leeches, and dirt roads...meaning men wore dirty uniforms 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; bathing in rivers when possible.
The American Military pulled the troops out of Vietnam because of political pressure on the home front.
Vietnam and Cambodia
Much of the training to prepare troops for the conditions of the Vietnam jungles was done there.
1903
Vietnam shifted the burden of the ground fighting from American troops to South Vietnamese troops during the later stages of the war. This was called "Vietnamization".
The American Military pulled the troops out of Vietnam because of political pressure on the home front.
Vietnam and Cambodia
Much of the training to prepare troops for the conditions of the Vietnam jungles was done there.
1955.
1903
Vietnam shifted the burden of the ground fighting from American troops to South Vietnamese troops during the later stages of the war. This was called "Vietnamization".
Ultimately the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam could be used to define the end of the war, the last of the American troops did not leave until the Paris Peace accords were signed in 1973.
Vietnamization
communism took over Vietnam
to increase the number of American troops and bombing campaigns in Vietnam.
zero
2009