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A 6 page paper which attempts to understand why the US entered the war, what it had hoped to gain, and why it was frustrated in its efforts to achieve its goal. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Soon, young boys were going off to fight a war in a land that couldnt be more foreign, a task made even more formidable because US political and military leaders
had made the costly strategic error of forgetting to know your adversaries. Although numerous glimpses of the country and its people were transported nightly over the media airwaves, there
was a universal American ignorance about a culture that had changed amazingly little throughout a turbulent 3,000-year history. The passage of time and careful consideration of the war has
revealed that the US and Vietnam couldnt be more diametrically opposed either politically, or most significantly, in terms of culture. While America had waged one victorious war for independence
way back in 1776, for Vietnam, it had been a constant struggle for liberation - against the ancient Chinese emperors, the French colonialists, the Japanese, and most recently from the
Americans (The Vietnamese, 1996). After World War II, two new superpowers emerged - the capitalist America and the communist Soviet Union. Soon, the competing ideologies began waging an
external Cold War that was based more on rhetoric and nuclear intimidation than on actual combat. Meanwhile, Vietnam was fighting an ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire
agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into northern and southern regional territories, with the Communists in the north led by Ho Chi Minh and the
Vietnamese nationalists in the south led by Ngo Dinh Diem (Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 1999). While the north was easily mobilized under a combination of "Viet Minh" Marxist/Communism and
agrarian socioeconomic policies, the south was mired in the chaos of rivaling religious groups and numerous political groups, a situation that was aggravated by Diems corrupt government administration (Socialist Republic
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