Viet Nam War

Viet Nam War

Introduction

On April 30 , 1975 , the communist-backed Vietnamese Army captured the city of Saigon , triggering both the retreat of the American army from Viet Nam and representing America 's loss of that war (Philbert In the decades since , there has been a great deal of controversy as to how and why the United States lost the war . Ultimately , this research will analyze the key reasons why the US lost the war in Viet Nam leading to not only a better understanding of this pivotal part of American history

, but also a significant part of the history of modern warfare

A War Based on False Pretenses

If such a statement makes sense , a study of the Viet Nam War clearly shows that the war was virtually destined to be an American defeat from the start due to the fact that the reasons that the US entered the war in the first place based on false pretenses . A closer look at this assertion requires the revisitation of the beginnings of American military intervention in Viet Nam

It is generally agreed that the beginning of American involvement in the Viet Nam war in an official capacity began on August 7 , 1964 when the United States Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution This resolution , which gave President Lyndon B . Johnson the power to allocate troops and arms against the communist North Vietnamese Army in response to the alleged attack on the US destroyer Maddox on August 2 1964 by naval...