How could the most advanced superpower on earth lose to a bunch of rice farmers who still lived like in the 17th...

How could the most advanced superpower on earth lose to a bunch of rice farmers who still lived like in the 17th century?

Shouldn't Vietnam dominate the world instead of America?

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For all intents and purposes the USA won the Vietnam War, which throws a wrench in your whole argument.

The political goals and the military conditions approved to achieve it didn't jive. American policymakers assumed that if they propped up the south, repelled all attempts by the North Vietnamese to invade and wrought hell on the North with their superior firepower acceptable concessions would follow.

As it turned out the South's government was rotten and wouldn't survive without indefinite & substantial US support which was becoming untenable as US involvement became more unpopular as the war dragged on and the North's will to fight was much stronger than anticipated.

At least that's how I understand it.

Because first, US didn't really lose in battlefields, they lost in politics and morale, American people were just unwilling to support their government to fight anymore. Military wise, America didn't lose at all, on the contrary, they won almost every ground battles and inflicted heavy casualties on Vietcong.

Second, Vietcong had very strong determination and received almost endless support from USSR and Chicom, including weapons, ammunition, tanks, air crafts, rations, military instructors..etc, their entire guerrilla tactic is derived from PLA who already has abundant experiences to deal with American back in Korea. Therefore, it's impossible to make them back down! Even if they were really defeated, they could simply retreat to China and fight back again.

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Occupiers can always just go home.

The US created the Viet Minh basically btw. If you read into the background of OSS involvement in WW2 and the fallout after it's remarkably similar to the result of US support of the mujahadeen and modern islamism

grade A bait and the retarded americans will bite
>usa won! commie gooks died millions! muh kill death ratio!
>usa won! it was just the hippies forcing government to pull back

Dolchstoß.the Soldiers didnt lose in the field,but the american people disliked the war.The NVA and vietcaong were slaughtered but had an iron will to fight,that what won in the end.

They weren't in the 17th century, they were being supplied by the Soviet Union, the US couldn't bomb them back into the stone age without diplomatic repercussions. North Vietnam indiscriminated targeted civilians, killing 100000s of South Vietnamese civilians compared to the 60000 North Vietnamese civilians who died. The Vietcong had a free hand to use intimidation while in the US it was illegal. The Soviet Union started a massive propaganda campaign in the US to sway public opinion in favor of North Vietnamese imperialist aggression against Laos and South Vietnam.

The guerrilla tactic is taught by the Japs who refused to surrender in 1945, the Viet Minh kept some of them behind to train their troops
If Vietnam had tactics like Chinese Dien Bien Phu would be a meat grinder for North Vietnam
South Vietnam was the 51st state of USA, it was an area for France to regroup and go home, VNeses were supposed to vote to choose their leader but some lads just want to "Carpe Diem" and seize the fucking country.