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Originally Posted by websiex
The United States had a full all out ground offensive in Vietnam, over 3.5 million US troops served in SE Asia during that war... I wouldn't call that "pussyfooting". Also, we had over 500,000 troops on the ground, (3.5 million switching in and out). It was a full blown war basically, and the US got beat... Iraq appears to be heading down that same road.
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President Eisenhower sent the first troops to Vietnam and from that time...until Nixon finally ordered that some of the proper targets were no longer safe from attack...the military fought with one hand behind its back.
Those that supplied the NVA and the Port of Haiphong were not allowed to become targets and the cities of North Vietnam were not allowed to become targets. Finally Nixon ordered 24/7 bombing of the cities and harbor and in eleven days it brought the North to the peace table and facilliated our withdrawal of our forces. Two years after our forces withdrew the South was overrun. The Southern forces got beat not US forces.
The Vietnam conflict would have been over in one day with the use of Tactical Nukes. It would have been over in 30 days with the use of sustained bombing on the proper targets (as was proven by 11 days of sustained bombing on some of the proper targets). It would have been over in 90 days with a ground invasion of the North.