THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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body counts
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the Tet Offensive
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actions of the Students for a Democratic Society
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the invasion of Cambodia
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Detailed explanation-1: -All the contested territory was theoretically “held” already. Instead, the US Army used body counts to show that the US was winning the war. The Army’s theory was that eventually, the Viet Cong (VC) and People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) would lose after the attrition warfare.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vietnam War All the contested territory was theoretically “held” already. Instead, the US Army used body counts to show that the US was winning the war. The Army’s theory was that eventually, the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army would lose after the attrition warfare.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many Americans opposed the war on moral grounds, appalled by the devastation and violence of the war. Others claimed the conflict was a war against Vietnamese independence, or an intervention in a foreign civil war; others opposed it because they felt it lacked clear objectives and appeared to be unwinnable.
Detailed explanation-4: -Body Counts and “Success” in the Vietnam and. Korean Wars Scholars analyzing the Vietnam War fre-quently argue that the United States Army’s fixation on body. counts-the number of enemy dead-played a major role in con-tributing to America’s failure to win against a third world nation.