Although the armistice of November 1918 ended the war on the Western Front, the millions of men who were serving there didn’t immediately return home. A demobilisation scheme was implemented, to ensure the gradual release of men from military service.

Operation Homecoming

Often cited as the last verified American POW from the Vietnam War, Garwood was taken to North Vietnam in 1969, and reportedly was released in 1973 along with the other U.S. POWs as part of the Paris Peace Accords. However, he did not return to the United States until March 22, 1979.

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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.

Failures for the USA Failure of Operation Rolling Thunder: The bombing campaign failed because the bombs often fell into empty jungle, missing their Vietcong targets. Lack of support back home: As the war dragged on more and more Americans began to oppose the war in Vietnam.

Vietnam War The Vietnam War

Discipline problems and ‘fragging’ Disillusionment with the war was coupled with psychological trauma. Most US soldiers who had spent time ‘in country’ had seen fellow servicemen, sometimes their friends, killed or disfigured by sniper fire, mines or booby traps.

The Vietnam War had its origins in the broader Indochina wars of the 1940s and ’50s, when nationalist groups such as Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh, inspired by Chinese and Soviet communism, fought the colonial rule first of Japan and then of France.

In general, historians have identified several different causes of the Vietnam War, including: the spread of communism during the Cold War, American containment, and European imperialism in Vietnam.

Vietnam is a socialist republic with a one-party system led by the Communist Party. The CPV espouses Marxism–Leninism and Hồ Chí Minh Thought, the ideologies of the late Hồ Chí Minh. The two ideologies serve as guidance for the activities of the party and state.

It ended the way it did because for the North Vietnamese it was an existential war and they were prepared to fight for as long at it took. The US was not, and when public opinion turned against the war, our leaders called it quits. As it was, we lost some 58,000 people and had some 250,000 wounded for a lost cause.

Having rebuilt their forces and upgraded their logistics system, North Vietnamese forces triggered a major offensive in the Central Highlands in March 1975. On April 30, 1975, NVA tanks rolled through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, effectively ending the war.

The Vietnam War severely damaged the U.S. economy. Unwilling to raise taxes to pay for the war, President Johnson unleashed a cycle of inflation. The war also weakened U.S. military morale and undermined, for a time, the U.S. commitment to internationalism.

It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. It was the first war to come into American living rooms nightly, and the only conflict that ended in defeat for American arms. The war caused turmoil on the home front, as anti-war protests became a feature of American life.

The longest war in U.S. history has come at the financial cost of close to $1 trillion. It has killed more than 2,000 American soldiers and, according to some estimates, hundreds of thousands of Afghans. The United States invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. President George W.

Anglo-Zanzibar War

Since 1945, the United States has very rarely achieved meaningful victory. The United States has fought five major wars — Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan — and only the Gulf War in 1991 can really be classified as a clear success.

Afghanistan is the longest war in American history, outlasting the Civil War, Spanish‐​American War, World War I, World War II, and Korean War combined. U.S. soldiers will soon be deploying to a war that started before they were born.

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Series of wars and conflicts

Three pure types of war are distinguished, viz., absolute war, instrumental war, and agonistic fighting.

In much of the CASCON historical database, wars frequently end as a result of military victory rather than negotiation. However, students of conflict in the present era are likely to consider a war-ending strategy of decisive victory to be morally repugnant.

Warfare refers to the general act and art of waging war. War is sometimes used in the same way of “warfare”, but is more often used to refer to a particular armed conflict.

Though often confused with absolute war, and even used interchangeably, real war is war as it exists in the real world. War, in its ideal form, cannot be waged in a limited way, though in reality a war without limits would be neither possible nor preferable.

Clausewitz cogently defines war as a rational instrument of foreign policy: “an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.” Modern definitions of war, such as “armed conflict between political units,” generally disregard the narrow, legalistic definitions characteristic of the 19th century.

The term “war theory” will be taken to mean the establishment of rules of war as a social tool for specific cultures, based upon the particular notions of that culture’s notions of justice and statehood. In the same way, the theories of justice and statehood will be taken to reflect the specific cultural ideals.

In On War, Clausewitz sees all wars as the sum of decisions, actions, and reactions in an uncertain and dangerous context, and also as a socio-political phenomenon. He also stressed the complex nature of war, which encompasses both the socio-political and the operational and stresses the primacy of state policy.