Did the US lose the Vietnam War?

The United States forces did not lose, they left. Usually, people affiliate the phrase losing a war to actual defeat. … America never lost any major battles in Vietnam, yet the North Vietnamese lost many, including the 1968 Tet Offensive. America never lost or gave up ground, yet many NVA/VC strongholds were decimated.

Cambodian neutrality and military weakness made its territory a safe zone where PAVN/VC forces could establish bases for operations over the border. With the US shifting toward a policy of Vietnamization and withdrawal, it sought to shore up the South Vietnamese government by eliminating the cross-border threat.

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China had become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government.

American soldiers referred to the Viet Cong as Victor Charlie or V-C. “Victor” and “Charlie” are both letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet. “Charlie” referred to communist forces in general, both Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.

Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. … As many as two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians were killed.

The movement’s principal objectives were the overthrow of the South Vietnamese government and the reunification of Vietnam.

First de Marrais tells them that it was Americans who created the Viet Minh, a precursor to the Viet Cong, in 1945. … As for the US, its objectives in Vietnam were never colonial in nature, but ideological.