The Vietnam War: Part Four

The Vietnam war was an interesting period that has interesting pieces with the war vs hippies and an antiwar movement. The Vietnam War book was requested by my cousin as it was an interesting period and the start of the war against the enemy. This Part of my Vietnam writing I am including information from 1966 through 1967 at the height of Lyndon B Johnson’s War.

The Vietnam war had a very heavy cost military, financially, politicly, religiously and with other work.  The military cost to Vietnam was an additional 70 death per 100,000 troops in the war. Financially a heavy cost from flights, consulting and other advisors. Religiously it impacted the dead soldiers and caused men to die or lose faith or kill people in the name of religion. Politicly it contributed to the assignation of Kennedy and the ending of multiple presidents’ administrations and heavy amounts of riots. Work wise caused a massive change in culture, movies and how we fight wars against insurgents.

The Johnson administration from 1966 through 1967 started to scale back war objects in the Vietnam war to allow more compromise with the Viet Cong. The Johnson administration planned to create a self-made +self-determined Vietnam with Vietnamese helping make the decisions. The reinforcements to Vietnam on October 7th, 1966, included 688,500 Army, Navy, Airforce and Marine reservists to build the Armed forces in Vietnam to defend them from the communist Viet Cong.  The Vietnam war was very expensive – with troop numbers – with lives- and with money.

The Truth about the Vietnam War was that Vietnam was a- very expensive- man heavy war- for a moderately sized communist country- Vietnam had heavy amounts of support to defend themselves from the South Vietnamese. The Viet Cong had heavy amounts of support from Communist China -Weapons and other heavy-duty materials. The halt and comeback of the “trump card” in the war included heavy amounts of work and other essentials. Hanoi and the Joint Chiefs used the total American troop strength of 470,000 men which is a substantial amount considering nowadays the entire military is only 650,000 men.

Pentagon Analysts studied the war and found a maximum limit to the number of effective forces in Vietnam due to Guerrillas cost and logistics.  The Pentagon study, in 1966, had a troop debate in October, about a Pentagon Study – on Nov 17 – the Pentagon’s efficiency specialists from 1965-1966 – increased the friendly troop numbers by 166,000. They lost 70 men per 100,000 more in that year then in the year before. The analytics suggested that more than 470,000 troops would only lead to more/ heavy losses and not more gains in the war.

The Vietnam war was studied by military analysts, they studied the facts and they found out that having more then 470,000 troops would not help the war effort and for every 100,000 men an additional 700 men would die on top of the previous casualties. The men did lots of work and did a great job but the war may have been on of the biggest war mistakes up there with Germany invading Russia and Napoleon invading Russia.