I'm very into history and I don't understand the vietnam jokes. USA was winning but they withdrew because no one wanted the war. Am I just taking the joke too literally?
We won every engagment but lost the war due to poor leadership and failed policies. The pentagon believed that if they killed enough people they could not only curb the Norths ability to continue but also destroy their will. What it did was destroy the american peoples will to continue and the north vietnamese knew that and would rather die than give up. Tactically we won every battle. But we wouldnt hold the ground like in korea or ww2. We would show up kill hundreds and leave and the NVA would bring in reinforcements to take the same damn hill that 30 marines just died to take.
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