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Vietnam War defeat shuns the guilt of the nation
Citing the battle of Lam Son 719 in 1971, at best hardly won by communist forces, and concluding the incapability of the South Vietnamese army to stand on its own is the quintessence of hollowness. This writing clearly betrays the formation quality and dishonors both the West Point academy and the University of Chicago. The author's ignorance in logistics is criminal. With nearly a million of SEATO troops involved, with the naval blockade and air raids by the 7th Fleet, by squadrons of B-52s, the U.S. could hardly convince the North communists to seat down in Paris and sign a perfunctory peace treaty that they immediately thrashed away. Yet with no significant involvment of U.S. troops, the South Vietnamese infantry with inferior weapons (no anti-tank weapons, no 7th Fleet support) was able to defeat overwhelming commnist forces at the battle of An Loc (4/1972) and at the battle of Quang Tri (6/1972). South Vietnam was no less an outpost to contain communism than West Germany or South Korea, and certainly, these outposts must be maintained as long as U.S. values and interests are threatened, with or without U.S. troops. They are mandatory and indefinite expenses that must be budgeted into any nation's defense. Nowadays, even without the threat of a communist superpower, U.S. troops are still being deployed in Germany, South Korea, Japan, etc.... Yet, on her "brink" of victory, the abandonment of South Vietnam by the U.S. was inhumanly orchestrated. Why such a devastated and unconscionable treatment of an ally? When did this thought of disengagement start? The answer lies in the battle of Khe Sanh in 1968. After the Khe Sanh victory, U.S. strategists reveled in the discovery of their logistics superiority, even allied forces (U.S. Marines and ARVN paratroopers) were outnumbered by the Viet Cong who tried in vain to repeat Dien Bien Phu. The Khe Sanh battle destroyed the invincible myth of the Soviet bloc and Chinese war machine where its logistics showed the first signs of distress but Khe Sanh was never reinforced to become a strategic chokepoint of this war machine's logistics and infiltration. Instead, Khe Sanh was hastily abandoned and its victory was immediately downplayed into oblivion until 41 years later. Back home in the USSR, famine and long lines in front of collective food stores were rampant. Advancing its war machine into a couple more countries, Angola, Nicaragua, and Afghanistan, overreached USSR imploded. Khe Sanh now stands its place on the honor row with Concord, Gettysburg, and Normandie (Ref. Obama's 2009 inaugural speech) in the history of the U.S. but the Vietnam War was never declared as an astute, calculated tactic to achieve a strategic victory and destruction of the USSR. Let the uninformed parrot it a suffering defeat shuns the guilt of the nation.
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