The United States could have and should have won this war, with a combination of better weapons usage, better tactics, and better support from their home country. ... Even more so, Agent Orange cause countless birth defects and deadly illnesses in returning vets. ... By simply thinking ahead, weighing the consequences of using weapons such as napalm and Agent Orange, the U.S. quite possibly could have won the Vietnam War completely through the use of air power. ... Weapons were another problem in Vietnam. ... Other difficulties with weapons were rampant. ...

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Another reason on why I believe the Vietnam war and the policies that followed were not justified up to its completion in addition to the fact it was based on lies is that there were many human rights were violated As many innocent civilians lives were brutally taken by the hands of U.S soldiers and by the use of extremely powerful chemical weapons that were used in Vietnam against international law such as the Geneva contract. ... Napalm was even weaponized into flamethrowers and air bombs making them much more powerful and gruesome. Now imagine innocent civilians including women and ch...

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An M60; a general purpose machinegun that was light enough to be carried on patrol but proved deadly in a firefight, and/or an M16 which fired .223 caliber bullets at a rate of 750-900 rounds per minute on an automatic setting. ... To stop arms transportation the Mark 1 PBR was sent out to seek and destroy weapons convoys. ... The VC dug up and re-used American land mind, took claymores from tripods, and even cut open unexploded bombs to gather parts to make their own versions of the handmade weapons. ... There were chambers carved out for arms factories and well for the tunnels water supply, ...

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(McNamara "The Tragedy and lessons of Vietnam" Preface) Many argue now that the Vietnam War was a deadly mistake, and it is my opinion as well. ... By 1950's South-East Asia became place where interest of superpowers, such as United States, China and USSR, as well as fading colonial empires like France and United Kingdom, created deadly tensions. ... North Vietnamese fought using soviet build weapons, tanks and warplanes. ...

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The proud young military men believed that the Viet Cong could be swiftly conquered only to come to awareness these guerrillas were a deadly, persistent enemy who were willing to sustain continual casualties, while the U.S. government became just as responsible for inflicting tremendous casualties physically and morally during the war. ... The men could not look anywhere without seeing dust, whirling dust inside tents, thick dust that stuck to everything it came into contact with, such as skin, weapons, and leaves on trees (56-59). ... The Viet Cong exploit the Vietnamese children by hav...

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Vietnam is a small country on the coast of South East Asia. This tiny country has long been ravished by war and conquering neighbors. From the ancient time with one thousand years of dominance from China, to the 1800s with one hundred years of being a colony under France and Japan. In 1954, the cou...

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