# Educate me about the Vietnam War

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educate-me-about-the-vietnam-war/386522>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 3, 2007, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educate-me-about-the-vietnam-war/386522 "2007-01-03T10:56:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educate-me-about-the-vietnam-war/386522/41 "2007-01-04T13:28:38Z")

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[Cite](http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Vietnam_War) on other nations troops in Vietnam

_The Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam or the “RVN”), the United States, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Participation by the South Korean military was financed by the United States, but Australia and New Zealand fully funded their own involvement_  
There was a Great Thread here on “_What does the military think is the reason why we lost in Vietnam_?” .

Specifically \*\*Paul in Saudi’s \*\* [post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3183706&postcount=13) on first hand lessons he learned in “Army School” is worth a read here in this current debate (as that is what this has turned into) on military vs. polictical loss.

As is \*\*Danimal’\*\*s [post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3186739&postcount=22) which touches on an lesser understood effect of Tet – how the entire U.S. strategy was built on measuring Body count – which Tet revealed to be not the indicator it had been presented as and assumed to be (body count = victory)

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