The Fall of South Vietnam

"You may kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." said North Vietnamese leader, President Ho Chi Minh, toward the French in the year of 1948 (Wexler 35).1 Yet it was the United States military that was reminded of the words of Ho Chi Minh, some twenty-seven years later about the way jungle warfare was fought. The United States fought a totally different type of war than they had ever fought before. From lack of support from the home front to the troubles adapting to jungle warfare, the United States was caught in a war of mixed feelings. They never wanted to lose the war, but with casualties and angry American citizens the U.S. ended the war with North Vietnam in the mid 1970's. The United States of America got involved with South Vietnam to protect them from communist takeover, but what they didn't know and could have avoided was the number of lives they lost and how South Vietnam would still fall into the communists...