A War America Could have Won :: American America History

A War America Could have WonNorth Vietnam was battling for ownership of South Vietnam, so they could be a incorporate communist nation. To pr reddent the domino effect and further spread of communism, the USA troops in 1965 went into action against the Viet Cong until 1975. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by a third world nation, but also lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won, or pr make upted in the first base place. The USA could have and should have won this war, with a combination of better weapons usage, better tactics and better support from their home country. The First American struggle troops in Vietnam landed at Da Nang in 8 March 1965 to defend the air base. With the exception of the nuclear weapon, every piece of equipment in Americas mighty arsenal was used in the war. The USA President Lyndon Johnson said Our goal was to deter and diminish the strength of the North Vietnamese aggressors and try to induce them to leave South Vi etnam alone. Johnson limited the conflict to an air war at first, hoping to pound away and push the Viet Cong into giving in. He used planes much(prenominal) as the B-52 bomber to try to win the war as quickly as possible. So he unleashed a continuous bombing raid on North Vietnam. This was the raid known as Operation Rolling Thunder. American scientist created an array of ultra-sensitive devices to detect the army. THE B-52 dropped bombs in large amounts of the defoliating gas, agentive role Orange. Hundreds of millions of acres of jungle were destroyed and even fields of rice paddies were poisoned because of Agent Orange. Agent Orange was supposed to eliminate the Viet Congs advantageous hiding places, but it only turned the people the Americans were fighting for against them even more. Yet another type of bomb was used. Napalm was also another mistake. By using a flammable jelly to liter eachy burn up all of North Vietnam, the USA not only killed more civilians than soldiers, bu t also raised several ethnical questions. Weighing the consequences of using weapons such as napalm and Agent Orange, the USA quite possibly could have won the Vietnam War completely through the use of air power. More tonnage of ordinance was dropped in each given week during Vietnam than during all other wars in the history of the world combined.