>reading this fucking article https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Because the US government was riddled with the communists that Joe McCarthy tried and failed to get rid of. They made sure that the military never ended up being able to fight a left-wing enemy (Korea and Vietnam) with the force it brought to bear on right-wing enemies (Germany and Japan). The plan worked, and the military ended up being hamstrung, which made the war drag on until the population got tired of losing sons and having no gains to show for it, and demanded an end to the war.

>>34887993
>Joseph McCarthy was a good guy
>We lost because of the hidden communist conspiracy

I should have specified I was looking for real-life answers not conspiracy theorist delusions.

>>34888013
>I should have specified I was looking for real-life answers not conspiracy theorist delusions.
That's not an argument.

But this is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wljpYZ8wejA

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>>34888027
>Linking to a cult leader
FUCKING LOL

>>34887973
Mostly politics. US gov't was worried that a proper invasion of NV could lead to an escalation in the Cold War and a nuclear exchange. Also technically we were never supposed to be in Vietnam. And a bunch of other stuff.

It's not a failure on anyone's part really, it's just the way the cookie crumbles. The real lesson is to avoid getting into these sort of conflicts in the first place, which the US has tried (then failed in Iraq 2) to do.

>>34887973
>the part about their "ingenious techniques of mine warfare"
They still have to live in a country filled with mines because of that shit: it's retarded in the long run but wikipedia is ran by Marxist shitbags so what else can one expect. Their tactics worked because they were more willing to die in large numbers and ruin shit for themselves to make the war end. We on the other hand trying to fight a war with our hands tied behind our back. No adoption of strategy could change that except killing them more aggressively than their own spirits could take.

Changing it's attrition strategy to something that worked and got us actual gains would mean killing those VC while they were acting as farmers and taking initiative or invading the north and fucking the leadership there to cut off their supplies of ammunition. The first idea looks harsh. The second was a mistake in the Korean war because it drew the intervention of China which made a stalemate so the bombing campaigns were the best we could do. Another alternative would have been to spark an early sino-vietnamese conflict but that'd be difficult to pull off and only seems like an option in hindsight.

Fighting Guerrilla warfare is too brutal for a generation with a large portion of hippies to have accomplished. A shit load of people in south vietnam (and the surrounding regions after domino theory turned out not to be a slippery slope fallacy) were consigned to death in reeducation camps partly by the failures of our society in the period.

Separating people from the awareness of what's happening probably crossed some minds and probably played into the development of the media black outs and cutting off internet you can see now in middle eastern countries that the CIA is toying around in.

>>34888013
Look into the Venona Intercepts. McCarthy hit the nail on the head. Soviet infiltration has been extensive since the GRU was first made and really picked up the in 40s when we had a reason to work together.

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>>34888013
>>We lost because of the hidden communist conspiracy
lol they weren't hiding very well
>>34888013
>>Joseph McCarthy was the best guy
>>34888078
jesus dude get rekt harder