The defeat in the Vietnam Campaign brought incalculable consequences to the United States, the United States, and society, and at the beginning of the Vietnam War, no one thought that the United States would be defeated by a small Southeast Asian country in Southeast Asia.
From defeating Japan in World War II, to nearly defeating China, to finally defeating Vietnam, why did the United States decline so quickly?
There has to be a good reason to go to war.
In terms of combat effectiveness, the strength of the United States in the Vietnam War far exceeded that of the Americans in World War II, and in the Vietnam War, their ** and equipment were overwhelming.
Take, for example, the air confrontations in the Vietnam War and World War II.
In World War II, American fighters had the absolute upper hand, that is, the F-4U "Corsair" and the F-6F "Hellcat" fighters, and in this regard, the Japanese had the absolute upper hand.
But during the Vietnam War, the US Navy Air Force was no match for North Vietnam at all, and the F-4 Phantom fighters were always at a disadvantage in close combat, but in air combat, it had an absolute upper hand even against Vietnam's small Soviet-made MiG-21.
The US Air Force lost a lot of fighters in the fighting in Vietnam, most of them were shot down during the bombing, and very few planes were shot down in the air.
Therefore, it is really incomprehensible that the United States still lost the battle in Vietnam, but the victory of a battle does not only depend on the quality of equipment, in fact, the United States has been at a disadvantage since Vietnam.
This is also the most fundamental purpose for a legion or a country to participate in this battle, and sending troops and troops will make a drastic change in the combat effectiveness of a force.
In World War II, most of the American people and soldiers fought in the war to avenge the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, because the United States was an international member of the anti-fascist forces.
In this case, both the Americans and the soldiers will feel that their lives are worth it and are willing to fight for their comrades, and that is another matter.
Vietnam, on the other hand, was a "cold war" between the United States and the Soviet Union, and although the United States put forward an excuse to stop communism in Southeast Asia, the problem was that "communism" was not synonymous with "evil."
No matter how the United States beautifies this matter, for ordinary Americans, the existence of the Communist Party is illusory, far less than the sudden fire at Pearl Harbor and the shock caused by the sunken battleship.
The United States entered the Vietnam War not out of its own volition, but out of command to its superiors, and no one knew what they were fighting for.
This is also the reason why there are so many people in Vietnam who oppose the war, after all, the United States is still very talented in patriotism.
And the reason why the United States is opposed by so many people is because Americans believe that this is a battle for no reason and an unpopular act.
Special circumstances of the battlefield.
The fighting in Vietnam was one of the toughest in the world, and it was fought in a very different way than in the Pacific theater.
In the early days of the Pacific War, the United States and Japan took the control of maritime hegemony as their main goal, and mainly focused on large-scale maritime operations.
This way of fighting is the best choice for a powerful country like the United States, because their naval strength will largely determine the outcome of the battle.
In addition, the Americans' record and luck in the early stage of the Pacific Campaign were very good, and in the Battle of Midway, although the US naval strength was far inferior to that of the Japanese coalition forces, they were able to defeat the Japanese coalition forces and regain the strategic initiative in the Pacific by virtue of their powerful information capabilities and the ability to judge the battle situation.
The powerful industrial power of the United States is like a powerful **, invincible in the Pacific.
The United States outnumbered Japan in both air and air power, giving them absolute superiority in the war, and they were not the only enemies of the United States.
The resistance of the Chinese and continuous fighting made the squadron a considerable number, and until Japan announced its unconditional surrender, there were still more than 1.25 million people, and if all the troops were sent to the Pacific Islands, it would be a great disaster for the United States.
But in the fighting in Vietnam, the Americans found themselves in a very awkward position, because the fighting environment in the forest was very complicated, and the tactics they were best at, such as air strikes, in this environment, their combat effectiveness would be greatly affected.
A bomb detonated in the forest, under the dense vegetation, will have a great impact on the lethality, the US Air Force launched an air raid on North Vietnam, it took more than three years, but the real lethality is probably not as good as the air raid on the Japanese mainland for a month.
Judging from the reality of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Air Force had an absolute upper hand in air combat, but in this forest, the strength of the beauties did not necessarily surpass the Vietnamese army, which is why the Vietnam War was so fierce.
The U.S. ** team's understanding of the forest is far less good than that of their Vietnamese soldiers who grew up in the forest, and the Vietnamese army can flexibly ambush and counterattack, which makes the U.S. ** team exhausted.
The most critical point is that the United States simply cannot cut off Vietnam's logistics, and the United States cannot do it, but they dare not do it.
There is an iron rule in the war in Vietnam, and no war is allowed outside the 17th parallel, otherwise China is likely to intervene, and the United States does not want anything to happen to North Korea again.
If the United States does not soon gain full control of Vietnam and win a military success, the war will end in an ugly way.
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Information source: 1] White Snow Peak. U.S. strategic choices in Southeast Asia. U.S. Foreign PolicySoutheast Asia; "Overlord" 2012.