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The U.S. government finally admitted after the war that they had no business being there. JFK and Bobby Kennedy knew it and so did Martin Luther King and 1/2 of the population of the U.S.
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It could have been run by the military instead of the politicians. Those who traveled to North Vietnam and allowed themselves to be used in propaganda by the enemy could have been charged with treason. In short, the US could have acted as if we were actually fighting a war and forgotten about politically correctness.
We could have run an active bombing campaign against the NVA staging areas north of the DMZ. We gave the North Vietnamese a virtual sanctuary from which to attack South Vietnam. US troops should have attacked in southern North Vietnam and taken the war to the enemy. Instead we fought a defensive war in the south. It was only at the end of the war did we attack and bomb North Vietnam War making facilities in the north to any great extent. This was in the era before political correctness, we were actually afraid of Chinese intervention which is what had happened in Korea.
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What could the United Nation forces have done differently to avoid China entering the war?
avoid closing in on the China border at the Yalu river
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What was done by the US to repair the damage done to the poorly treated Vietnam veterans?
They built a monument in Washington DC.
How was morale affected by the type of warfare fought in Vietnam?
In the beginning, until the men got used to it. Leadership in Vietnam was conducted by WWII veterans, they were un-customed to fighting a limited war (a war in which the US military could not "nuke" the enemy until victory was accomplished; as was done in WWII).
How did the corruption of the South Vietnamese government undermine the us military in Vietnam?
At first, it seemed as though the Vietnam War was between North Vietnam and the U.S. with South Vietnam supporting them. In reality, the South Vietnam's Pro-Democratic government treated their people so badly, that they formed a secondary army, called the Vietcong or VC, and worked alongside the North Vietnamese to drive out the US forces. This was done so they could establish a Communist government because the new Capitalist government was not helping them.
