General Westmoreland did nothing wrong, his only mistake was

increasing conscription would be a terrible decision since they were skimping at the bottom of the barrel here
and most people forget that the best of the conscript are sent to Europe, having more of them in Asia would be extremely risky

>>3103978
>and most people forget that the best of the conscript are sent to Europe

Source on this?

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>>3103971
an excerpt i read in this
>"Through the conflict,2245000 men has been raised by the draft, yet only 54% are sent to South East Asia, and the most qualified of these are sent to West Germany

>>3103999
This seems illogical?
Did race play into this?

>>3103983
The military rates people with a series of letters and numbers. The 1 in 1-A means you are perfectly fit physically for all military duties including combat. 4 means you are not fit for service at all except during a declared emergency.

The A means you are smart enough for service, B is close to that but lower etc. Letters denote additional mental qualities other than intelligence but that gets complicated.

It is true that during the Viet-Nam war the higher non-commissioned personnel were rated the less likely they were to go Viet-Nam. .

>>3104094
no
the truth to the matter is that Vietnam is an irrelevant backwater shithole, the reason America got into Vietnam is to show solidarity for South Vietnam,if America just abandon their ((democratic)) ally there it would shake every other ally the America has about their commitment,even though America would have a net benefit with atleast being neutral with the commie regime so it's basically a catch-22
And Vietnam War is just a proxy war

>>3104094
No, not really. Remember that while Vietnam was the part of the cold war that flared up, the threat of a much more direct and vital thrust being made into central and western Europe was always on the minds of cold war military planners.

Putting your best troops in Germany makes a fair degree of sense.

>>3104155
It was also useful for seeing how well the officer corp behaved in combat. Most of the seasoned officers from WWII were dead or retired, and relatively few were in Korea, which was a giant cluster fuck and not really useful for assessment purposes.

>>3103971
He should've listened to the Marine generals and actually occupied the central highlands with a lot more permanent bases with more active patrols. We weren't taking and holding ground, we'd just knock the NVA/VC (I'm using the Americanized names for the sake of simplicity) off a fortified hill and leave. They'd just come back later.

>>3103971
he was a stubborn asshole who never had a firm grasp on what made the NVA tick