vietnam war

vietnam war.
How did Vietnam happen?


How Vietnam happened is a question that has fascinated historians and political and social scientists to our day. What has been hard to conceive is that how the United States, a country of military superpower, could not win in Vietnam. There are so many ways to approach in order to answer this question. However, it is simplistic to attribute this failure to one single cause. Is it the overall foreign policy that was adopted towards the crisis? Is it the way the certain foreign policy was not implemented the way it should have been? Or was it interpreted wrongly? Is it personal inefficiencies and psychological flaws of the executives of the time? We can come up with so many other questions to answer this phenomenon but the reason I want to limit them to these is that these are the main causes that have resulted in so many other subliminal causes.
The overall foreign policy is the containment of communism. What has caused the failure of the Uni...