Café Bite : Why the US lost the Vietnam war

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In May 1967 US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara reported that the war was un-winnable because of the strategy of the North Vietnamese army and not because of the Vietcong in the South. That was two years after they got involved and before the serious escalation of the war which dragged on for another 6 years before the US withdrew. What was going on? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.