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  1. gcsehistory.com

    Military weaknesses in the US forces led to failure in Vietnam for the following reasons: The military believed the war could be won with more troops and through bombing campaigns in North Vietnam, which was not the limited war the government wanted. US forces also failed to adjust their tactics to suit Vietnam's terrain and climate.
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  3. foreignaffairs.com

    The United States has been fighting a war in Afghanistan for over 18 years. More than 2,300 U.S. military personnel have lost their lives there; more than 20,000 others have been wounded. At least half a million Afghans—government forces, Taliban fighters, and civilians—have been killed or wounded.
  4. Oct 30, 2024The United States was not provoked into war, and none of the Cold War justifications of containment or the "domino theory" required the US military to intervene. If South Vietnam fell to a communist insurgency, the Chinese or the North Vietnamese were not going to "land on the beaches of Waikiki"—as Vice President Lyndon Johnson ...
  5. foreignaffairs.com

    Mar 30, 2023The United States has a particularly dismal track record when it comes to correctly assessing others' military power. During the Vietnam War, U.S. policymakers vastly underestimated the effectiveness of the Viet Cong and, therefore, misjudged the odds of success. The United States has often made a similar mistake when evaluating its partners.
  6. www2.law.temple.edu

    Peter Konchak '21, Law & Public Policy Scholar August 30, 2021 marked the end of nearly two decades of continuous U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan. A little more than two weeks after Taliban militants seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, following a rapid offensive and the wholesale collapse of the Afghan security forces, the last U.S. military forces in Afghanistan completed their ...
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