Just got this idea from a HISTORY TODAY article I read yest (probably been addressed in some form before, but anyways)- what'd be the best way to facilitate such a sitn where the US involvement in WWI becomes as unpopular as Vietnam ?
Just got this idea from a HISTORY TODAY article I read yest (probably been addressed in some form before, but anyways)- what'd be the best way to facilitate such a sitn where the US involvement in WWI becomes as unpopular as Vietnam ?
If the real stories of warfare could have been told to the American public with the visual aspects of the horrors, ala the nightly news during the Vietnam war, then WW1 could have become even more unpopular than Vietnam. The American casualty rates were much higher, I think, than all other American wars, when you take into account how long the Americans participated in the War. Lots of senseless casualties as well. For instance, even after senior officers knew of the emminent cease fire and Armistace, many still threw their young soldiers into battle in order to achieve some meaningless piece of real estate for their own glory but at the expense of their soldiers' lives. If the media had been able to report such things in relative real time with photos or movies, the American public would have gone apeshit.
Impossible.Just got this idea from a HISTORY TODAY article I read yest (probably been addressed in some form before, but anyways)- what'd be the best way to facilitate such a sitn where the US involvement in WWI becomes as unpopular as Vietnam ?