Vietnam War Mistakes

“…the United States was simply repeating the disastrous mistakes of the 1960s and cautioned that Iraq, like Vietnam, would become a quagmire for the United States” (Masur 193). History does repeat itself, but is Iraq a repetition of what happened during the tragic Vietnam War? The United States faced a gruesome war during the Vietnam War trying to help South Vietnam fight against the North Vietnam and te Vietcong, with an alarming rate of unnecessary causalities and an unclear victory left to think about. America should have learned their lesson from this encounter, but has the American mind even changed since the time of the Vietnam War? Have we, the United States, learned from our mistakes from the past? Or are our mistakes inevitable with

Going into the Vietnam War, America didn’t know much of anything about Vietnam, their culture, or their people. We didn’t even speak their language. We didn’t understand what exactly to do. We continued to increase the number of troops to send over, and we continued to get more casualties and fatalities. American methods including a hi-tech war, search and destroy, and strategic hamlets did nothing to help them; it only hurt them and help the Vietcong destroy them (“BBC- GCSE Bitesize: Vietcong and American tactics,” (n.d.). The American tactics were not effective at

I don’t think our strategy in Iraq is quite complete since we are still there under Obama’s administration. Since ISIS has lost some of its key territory, the U.S. has been using air strikes to hinder the group and supporting local groups that are fighting ISIS on ground (“There are still huge problems with the US strategy for fighting ISIS – Business Insider,” n.d.). According to the same article, Sunnis are the key to the U.S.’s strategy because most of the cities the U.S. are planning to invade or seize are dominated by the Sunnis (ISIS