Why did the United States suffer a crushing defeat in the Vietnam War?

In 1941, the Japanese invaders won a major victory in the Chinese battlefield, they arrogantly thought that global hegemony was just around the corner, so they recklessly attacked the United States Pearl Harbor, this sneak attack was successful, but he was like scratching the itch in the boots for the powerful United States, and became an important reason for the United States to participate in World War II, from 1941-1945, Japan was completely defeated by the United States in the Pacific theater in just four years.

The United States not only did not drag down the domestic economy in the war, but quickly recovered the national economy and made great progress by virtue of the war, the United States only ** 350,000 in the four years of war, and the United States led the reconstruction of the world pattern after the war, it can be said that the United States in the two world wars have obtained greater political benefits at the minimum cost, and in 1945 became a superpower with nuclear **.

Why was the United States so powerful that it suffered a crushing defeat in the Vietnam War? Is it because Vietnam is far away from the US mainland, and the United States cannot provide military, technical, and material help in a timely manner? The answer was no, because the United States at that time had established many military bases around the world, and American aircraft carriers were free to sail the four oceans of the world, and they were ready to provide assistance whenever the Vietnamese battlefield needed them.

So why did such a powerful United States fail miserably in the Vietnam War, in fact, this stems from the change in the pattern of World War II, when the Vietnam War occurred, the United States had gradually passed the first period of economic development, and the Soviet Union, which vigorously supported Vietnam, once again ushered in rapid development, and the gap between military and economic strength and the United States was basically flattened, plus the center of gravity of the United States at that time was in Europe, and the local hot war in Asia was just a tactical strategy for the United States to drag down the Soviet Union.

Therefore, the United States at that time did not devote all its strength to the Vietnam War, but more supported the Vietnamese to fight the Vietnamese. According to relevant statistics, in the decades-long Vietnam War, the United States had only more than 50,000 people, and Vietnam was directly beaten into a very serious imbalance between men and women, and caused serious social problems after the war, which has not been well solved so far.

Because China is supporting Vietnam. This led to the fact that the US ground forces were not able to penetrate deep into North Vietnam to deliver a substantial blow to North Vietnam. The Air Force alone will not solve the problem.

China's food and ordnance support enabled North Vietnam to use all its troops without worrying about production. And Vietnam's main ideology is also one of the most populist mobilization capabilities. So even though the North Vietnamese were much higher than the U.S. military, they were still able to hold on.

This is the same as Afghanistan facing the Soviet Union. It's just that the populist mobilization in Afghanistan relies on another ideology, and it is the United States that supports Afghanistan.

I think it may be that there were some problems with the strategy of the United States back then, or it was still inferior to others.

Because Vietnam's terrain was complicated and the allies did not help the United States, it failed.

The United States had no way to expand the scale of the war, it needed to protect Europe, and the cause of the situation led to the defeat of the United States, and in the end the Vietnamese army was victorious.

If you understand the layout of the other side in advance, you may have sent some spies to probe the opponent's military strategy, so you can win the war.

The Americans did not withdraw from the Vietnam War because of military defeats, in fact, in the 10 years of the Vietnam War, the Americans did not lose in battles above the battalion level.

Typical large-scale battles, such as the Battle of Khe Son and the Tet Offensive, were all victories of the United States, and North Vietnam was too heavy to achieve the set goals.

The fundamental reasons for the retreat of the Americans were:

1. The Vietnam War consumed too many resources, and the Great Depression in the United States caused too much loss of national strength.

2. At the same time, the rise of the Soviet Union is constantly putting pressure on Europe, while the main forces of the United States are in Vietnam, and they are unable to deal with it in Europe.

3. Finally, anti-war sentiment is rising at home.

Here's a look at why the Americans didn't have the upper hand in Vietnam.

Let's start with the Air Force. The U.S. Air Force's consistent style is to fight offensively, destroying the opponent's aircraft on the ground, and then striking the opponent's economic bases, forcing the opponent's logistics to collapse.

But during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Air Force actually danced in shackles.

At that time, the United States was worried about China's entry into the war, and strictly forbade the air force to bomb the big cities and their surroundings (it was not canceled until the rearguard operation, and Vietnam returned to the negotiating table two weeks after the bombing of the big cities), and as a result, the Vietnamese deployed a large number of aircraft in the vicinity. In this way, the United States will not be able to eliminate the opponent's air force from a more fundamental perspective.

Moreover, Vietnam itself does not have much industry, and it is logistically dependent on China, so it will be bombed in vain.

Third, there were indeed problems with the training and equipment of the US Air Force at that time, which affected the efficiency (see "Lessons from Aluminum and Fire").

Fourth, at that time, the great power of precision guidance was insufficient, and the superiority of air force was offset by ground air defense forces and camouflage, which affected combat effectiveness.

Let's talk about the Army. First of all, the most common situation in Vietnam was not a frontal battle with a large corps, but a small-scale ambush of a patrol, which was a battle of the scale below the platoon level, which was the weakness of the Americans.

Secondly, the Americans seem to have invested a large number of troops, but in fact logistics personnel account for more than 3 5 of the total force, and the real ground forces are too few to cope.

Third, the South Vietnamese army's combat effectiveness was too weak to play a role.

The US Army was practically always in a situation where anti-aircraft guns were fighting mosquitoes.

To sum up, since it is impossible to annihilate the main forces of the opponent, it is impossible to suffocate the opponent by cutting off logistics. The Americans were never able to completely crush the Vietnamese troops.

Coupled with changes in the international situation and the deterioration of the domestic economy, the only thing can be withdrawn.

First of all, the main reason why Vietnam was able to drag the United States to death was due to the following factors.

One. Geographical conditions: Vietnam's natural conditions are mountainous and densely forested, much like China's Liangguang (that is, Guangdong and Guangxi), both are hilly areas, the whole country is mountainous, the United States fights, the Vietnamese hide in the mountains, so the United States is difficult to play a role, secondly, Vietnam learns from China to fight guerrilla warfare, never conducts large-scale battles with the United States, the United States is not powerful, can only fight a war of attrition with Vietnam, if it is a plain like Iraq, the United States uses tanks, ***, Fighter jets can be done in a short time, but when it comes to Vietnam, it is difficult to use this main method, and Vietnam due to the long-term war, the Vietnamese character is aggressive and strong, and the individual combat ability is very strong, especially in jungle warfare, it is difficult to have opponents, during the Sino-Vietnamese War in 79, many soldiers in our country said that fighting with Vietnam is like fighting with their own shadow, and China's land combat style at that time is nothing to say, which shows how strong the Vietnamese soldiers were at that time;

Two. Because it was in the Cold War period at that time, so the United States went to war with Vietnam, how could the Soviet Union and China sit idly by, the Soviet Union was working against the United States at that time, in short, whatever the United States did, the Soviet Union did against it, let alone fighting, so the Soviet Union sent materials and military personnel, and the Soviet Union's AK47 would not be able to find the North for the Americans, and China, because Vietnam is China's neighbor, China will not care, just think about the Korean War, so at that time, China sent food to Vietnam even if there was no food at home, At that time, Vietnam wanted to be the first, the Soviet Union gave it, and it wanted military supplies, and China gave it, and it didn't need to be transported by air, and the materials could be directly transported to the front line in Vietnam by train, and the United States couldn't intercept it. As an aside, until the war between China and Vietnam in 79, when our soldiers attacked Vietnam, the Vietnamese soldiers also used the grain of China's ** as sandbags, and our bullets and bombs hit our country's grain, but our soldiers were heartbroken, and there were many ** used to deal with us We also provided them, we regretted our death, and we were so angry that we were bubbling.

It can be seen how much supplies China gave to Vietnam at that time.

Tactical mistakes. It is very difficult for the United States to give full play to its advantages in carrying out jungle warfare against guerrillas, and it does not dare to fight a nuclear war.

Fighting halfway across the world, and it was a jungle war, or an away battle, and the enemy was a veteran of guerrilla warfare that we taught, and he was playing a people's war that Midi was not good at.

1.The United States was competing with the Red Soviet Union for world supremacy. However, the so-called red revolution in Vietnam is tantamount to a tendency to fall into the Soviet camp. 2.Take the opportunity to establish a base in Southeast Asia. There is one more transit station, and it will be more convenient to hit this and then after.

Initially to help the French break the siege, he later intervened in the fight against the communist regime in North Vietnam.

Because Americans are in constant fear.

Most Americans are of African-American-American descent.

In the United States, they are like wanderers from their homeland.

When people go to a strange place, the first thing is to build a base.

In this way, all your future development can be relied on.

Since the American is a wanderer, his background determines that he is keen to build a base to enhance his sense of security.

There are several reasons for this:

1.Under the Cold War pattern, the United States sought world hegemony, the Red regime in North Vietnam, implemented the socialist system, and moved closer to the Soviet Union, seriously threatening US interests in Indochina.

2.Control of Vietnam could restrain Red China in the north and further contain the Soviet Union.

3.Demonstrate the strength of the United States in East and Southeast Asia against the socialist countries in this region.

First of all, Vietnam is mountainous, and the Vietnamese use tunnel warfare to confront the United States, and it is difficult for the Americans' planes to play a role. Moreover, the Vietnamese are short in stature, and the tunnels they dig are also very narrow, and the Americans can't get into them, and even if they do, it's a situation where they can't get in.

Second, the Americans could only attack from the south of North Vietnam, but they went too deep into the northern part of Vietnam and feared a repeat of the Korean War with China, so it was naturally difficult to win.

Thirdly, China gave Vietnam a lot of material aid at that time, and it also helped Vietnam a lot.

Finally, the anti-war voices in the United States are also very high, which also forces the United States to end the fighting as soon as possible.

Hello! The short and concise Vietnamese are very suitable for jungle warfare in the karst terrain, and the Vietnamese have fought very tenaciously after years of baptism of war and the guerrilla warfare experience taught to them by China, and the Vietnam War veterans still recognize the spirit of the Vietnamese soldiers who are not afraid of death at that time.

At the time of the Vietnam War, all the people were soldiers, women, children, and sometimes you look at the villagers, but they were actually Vietnamese.

Because the United States does not want a real large-scale war.

If it really fights with all its might like fighting World War II, how can Vietnam resist.

The point is that "it's not worth continuing to fight".

Logically untenable, secondly, the United States is not only fighting Vietnam, but also with the USSR and China.

With China's help, the United States did not take Vietnam so easily.

Because there is no *** ideological arming.

Because the adversary of the United States is us.

The first group of young people went in to fight, and they suffered a big loss because of their inexperience, and the second group of adults went in to fight, and quickly cleaned up the Viet Cong, see Forrest Gump's biography.