Vietnam War

The Vietnam War took place from 1959 to 1975. The war involved the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front which came into conflict with the United States forces and the South Vietnamese army. Struggling for their independence from France, Vietnam divided into two countries, North and South Vietnam. Being Vietnam was a Communist government, the United States decided to become involved with Vietnam. The United States believed that if all of the country fell under a Communist government, Communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. This belief was known as the “Domino Theory.” Under this belief, the U.S. government supported the South Vietnamese government which led to the rebellion in the South because of the repressive policies, therefore, the National Liberation Front was formed into an opposition group with close ties to North Vietnam.

General Westmoreland, the American commander, had a variety of strategies he had conceived. His first strategy was to deploy the American troops to protect the U.S. air and supply bases along the South Vietnamese coast. He then would send units to block any attempt made by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong to sweep across to the sea and slice the country in

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Within two years, the gamble paid off. With all the information he gave, and with me not having much knowledge about Vietnam, the facts would back up his view well.

Meanwhile, in North Vietnam, the United States had imposed $300 million in damage on them. Corruption in South Vietnam reached new heights when the Binh Xuyen paid off Emperor Bao Dai, who made Bay Vien chief of police. One of the great speculators was the brother-in-law of General Nguyen Van Thieu, who superseded Nguyen Cao Ky as South Vietnam’s ruler. I can care less about people doing drugs during Vietnam, the gangs in Vietnam, and Vietnam serving as a laboratory for technology. They tried to “cling to the enemy’s belt. Some Americans were killed when moving through fields. My examples are a lively narcotics traffic developed as well during the American was, the petty drug dealers often fronting for senior South Vietnamese government officials with access to heroin refined from opium grown in Laos.

I have no idea on working with bias. It took down three others, killing two right off the bat and wounding the third, who later died. I thought the story pointed out a lot of information that isn’t worth reading. The Binh Xuyen gang and its local Chinese confederates directed casinos, brothels, and opium dens and kicked in a percentage of the profits to Bao Dai. The author quotes, “I was inexperienced, and my first sight and smell of blood nauseated me that I vomited and couldn’t work. They also booby-trapped grenades and tripped them by wires and fragmentation mines detonated by enemy guerillas slouched in the jungle.

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