A War America Could Have Won

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By 1967 Westmoreland commanded over 500,00 troops at the peak of war. On the tactics side, the entire US offensive used the essential comabat strategy of ?search and destroy' missions. Search and destroy missions involved US soldiers soldiers going out of the base and finding then killing the enemy...
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Unfortunately the Viet Cong knew the land and knew where to hide. The Viet Cong set up booby traps, which meant the search and destroy missions was like throwing US soldiers away. For more US soldiers were killed from booby traps than other cause of deaths in Vietnam...
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