Hearts and minds campaign couldn't hurt matters... The Hamlet program was an unmitigated disaster that drove the civilians further toward the Vietcong and north Vietnamese. When you go burning people's houses down and destroying their food reserves they tend to become slightly pissed.
Stay away from Mcnamera, keep the military honest about field reports, don't inflate kill counts/ dont make the entire war about kill counts, and find one competent leader in the entirety of South Vietnam and then keep him stabilized.
The route to winning Vietnam appears to me to be more of a public relations and marketing solution rather than any one military solution.
Stay away from Mcnamera, keep the military honest about field reports, don't inflate kill counts/ dont make the entire war about kill counts, and find one competent leader in the entirety of South Vietnam and then keep him stabilized.
The route to winning Vietnam appears to me to be more of a public relations and marketing solution rather than any one military solution.