Vietnam
The soldiers in the Vietnam War were not prepared to go into battle. ... The United States lost many soldiers because they were in such a hurry to get the soldiers over to Vietnam. ... But with this in mind, the United States did not do their homework on the matter of the Vietnam War. ... In the Vietnam War the strategy of the People’s Revolutionary War was confused with the strategy of guerilla war, although certain aspects are common to both. ... In the war of Vietnam, they were using equipment that was from past wars. ... The war in Vietnam also had many conspiracies within the United States military. ... Another problem was that many of the soldiers were not trained properly before they went to the war in Vietnam. ... When they got there they would just send them to Vietnam, which was not good because our soldiers would be in the middle of gorilla warfare with no idea of what to do. ... President Johnson’s fears about failure in Vietnam made him accept bombing, overriding whatever hesitation he still harbored about South Vietnam’s instability. ... bombing of North Vietnam was kept secret from the American public. This bombing would continue on for three years and they would end up dropping more bombs on Vietnam than had been dropped on all of Europe in the World War II (McNamara174).