Today is a day of remembrance, 29 March, of those that fought and died in the hell hole call Southeast Asia.

I bring this up because I was one of those people that spent my youth ass deep in mud and blood…..so my way of celebrating, for lack of a better word, is to share a few things with my readers.

When there is a conversation about this war there is always those that say the US could have won that war if we had wanted to or the ever popular if the president had listened to his generals.

Is this true?

This article tries to disspell some of the manure around such comments….

Historian Mark Moyar revisits the Vietnam War, challenging the consensus that the U.S. couldn’t have won. He contends South Vietnam was a viable state by 1972, capable of repelling North Vietnamese offensives with U.S. aid, and that the war wasn’t as unpopular in the U.S. as believed. However, Moyar overlooks South Vietnam’s reliance on U.S. support, North Vietnam’s advantages, and the U.S.’s inability to fully disrupt the North’s support for the Viet Cong. He underestimates domestic opposition to the war and the improbability of sustaining long-term U.S. involvement. Ultimately, the U.S. withdrawal reflected a strategic decision that the war’s costs outweighed its benefits, with no lasting impact on the global balance of power. The current cooperative relationship between Vietnam and the U.S. suggests the strategic loss was minimal.

Mark Moyar, a scholar of U.S. foreign and military policy, years back had the opportunity to update an older argument on the viability of the Vietnam War. Moyar argues that the historical consensus on the war is wrong on several points, and that in fact the United States could have won the war and preserved the Saigon government at acceptable cost. While Moyar’s argument is worth consideration, he still fails to make his case against the long-standing consensus on the war.

Please read on….

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/vietnam-war-was-there-anyway-us-military-could-have-won-209574

A nice gesture but I remember how we were treated when we returned to our homeland….

We Viet vets are getting older and starting to die off….soon we will be like those Korean War vets….we will be forgotten and no one will care.

So in the vane of that thought I offer up a comparison on the two forgotten wars….

The Vietnam War and the Korean War stand as two pivotal events, each leaving indelible marks on the world stage. Yet, the curious reality persists: the Vietnam War is remembered vividly, while the Korean War often fades into collective memory. This piece explores the disparities between these conflicts and uncovers the factors influencing the Korean War’s comparative lack of visibility.

https://sofrep.com/news/forgotten-battles-a-comparative-analysis-of-the-vietnam-and-korean-wars/

I disagree that Vietnam is remembered vividly….by those that were there then yes but those that were not or too young it is nothing but a show on the history channel.

If you have a moment in your busy lives please take the time to remember those that did not return.

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