Why did america lose the vietnam war?

America “lost” South Vietnam because it was an artificial construct created in the wake of the French loss of Indochina. Because there never was an “organic” nation of South Vietnam, when the U.S. discontinued to invest military assets into that construct, it eventually ceased to exist. read more

The American hi-tech tactics continually killed the wrong people and demoralised their own troops. The Vietcong's guerrilla tactics were appropriate to the nature of the conflict. The US was trying to supply a war 8,000 miles from America. read more

The troops fighting in the Vietnam did not want to be there so did not go into battle determined to win. There were many protests about the War and final after the failed attempts at peace talks Richard Nixon pulled all American troops out of the Vietnam War in 1973. read more

The United States did not lose the Vietnam war. South Vietnam did. North Vietnam won their war, which was a continuous 40 year struggle to create a unified Vietnam free of foreign control, first against the French (rather briefly), then the Japanese, then the French again, and then the United States and its client state South Vietnam, and then South Vietnam alone. read more