US Military Role
- Created by: FCarter
- Created on: 07-03-18 10:44
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- US Military
- American Disunity
- Army vs. Navy
- Distrusted the ARVN
- Short term of service
- Racial issues
- Insistence of a comfortable war
- Organising the American lifestyle
- Sent for R&R to Saigon or Japan
- Air of unreality and disorientation
- Seeking comfort elsewhere
- Problems for the 'grunts'
- Horrified by what they saw in Vietnam
- Terrified and demoralised
- US strategy and Viet Cong guerrilla war
- Struggled to defeat guerillas
- Search and destroy technique
- Tactics made civilians hostile
- Wrong role for the US military
- Gone beyond limited war and declared war?
- Cut South Vietnam off from Communists?
- Worked harder to win Vietnamese support?
- American Disunity
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