Originally Posted by Rochard

In Vietnam we never lost a major battle. A great of example of this was the Tet Offensive - This was a massive assault across the board that ended in spectacular failure.

The problem with Vietnam is that there was too many restrictions as to what our military can or could not do. The military needs to be able to do it's job, not have restrictions saying "You can't bomb this city" and "You can't go into this country". If the enemy is in Laos and Cambodia, then that's where our military needs to attack. Same thing with Hanoi - We should have flattened the city. Instead we drew a line in the jungle and said "do not cross". That gave them a large base to continue their efforts, and they attacked the southern half of the country by going into other countries.