The US wasn't beat militarily. However, the limitations imposed on the scope of operations in Vietnam made it into a war of attrition, which the Vietnamese people were better prepared for than the US populace.
Army of the republic of Vietnam
Vietnamese National Army was created in 1949.
The South Vietnamese did.
the Vietnam war was not an American war. we got in it to fight off communism. and the vietcong and north vietnamese worked together to fight us, and south vietnamese were hardly using their army to fight, they were letting us do all of it. and Americans didnt want to go die for a lost cause.
Absolutely not - On the contrary, they were the guerilla, civilian peasant farmers who took up weapons against American troops in support of the communists, alongside the NVA, or north Vietnamese army/
The final city that fell to the North Vietnamese Army was Saigon.
The South Vietnamese Army; "in-country"...we called him "Arvin the Marvin." There was also a South Vietnamese Air Force, Marines, Navy, and a South Vietnamese Ranger outfit.
The US prefers to use the term(s), "the US didn't win the war." The actual army on the ground that surrendered to the North was the South Vietnamese Army (South Viet Forces).
What happened to the NORTH Vietnamese? Or what happened to the SOUTH Vietnamese people?
Vietnam(they defeated the Australian, American, New Zealander, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, South Vietnamese and France.
Powell was a US Army officer fighting in the war; serving with the Americal Division.
1975