The Illusion Called South Vietnam

Discussions about why the United States lost the Vietnam war focus on actions taken after American ground troops arrived in 1965. They could never succeed because the war had already been lost. Ho Chi Minh was the most popular man in all of Vietnam and his soldiers were respected fighters for independence. They had defeated the French and later the Army of South Vietnam created by the American CIA. American soldiers fought for a nation that didn’t exist. ___________________________________ Archimedes Patti 1981 interview: “CIA and the Wars in Southeast Asia 1947-1975”; Signals Intelligence; has interesting information recently declassified. By the time US military ground troops arrived in Vietnam, “They all hated us!” as this Marine Corps vetera