For the US, its was due to lack of public support. If they didn’t do conscription (cuz people hate conscription, so that was bad PR), and had better propaganda to get more public support (and thus get enough people to voluntarily join the military to make up for the loss from lack of conscription), they might have won (emphesis on the “might”), although a huge number of US troops would’ve died.
I mean, the US did kinda saved South Korea, they could’ve done the same about Vietnam if they just had the same support.
South Korea also had a semi-functional government with some popular support. If we had taken North Vietnam the way we took most of North Korea before the PRC intervened, it would have resulted in an extension of the attrition-based warfare that characterized the Vietnam War, not the relative near-victory of the Korean War.
For the US, its was due to lack of public support. If they didn’t do conscription (cuz people hate conscription, so that was bad PR), and had better propaganda to get more public support (and thus get enough people to voluntarily join the military to make up for the loss from lack of conscription), they might have won (emphesis on the “might”), although a huge number of US troops would’ve died.
I mean, the US did kinda saved South Korea, they could’ve done the same about Vietnam if they just had the same support.
South Korea also had a semi-functional government with some popular support. If we had taken North Vietnam the way we took most of North Korea before the PRC intervened, it would have resulted in an extension of the attrition-based warfare that characterized the Vietnam War, not the relative near-victory of the Korean War.