There have been many wars throughout the history of the United States, but the most questionable one is the twenty-year Vietnam War. Was this war a mistake for America? We certainly think it was. There was fighting for twenty years straight with many deaths and really nothing was achieved in the process. Yes, we stopped the spread of communism in the South, but what do we get in return? A huge debt and a lot of mourning. This whole fiasco began with the beginning of the spread of communism from North Vietnam to South Vietnam, which began to scare the United States. When we started hearing about all this, President Eisenhower brought up the Domino Theory, which held that if South Vietnam and China fell to communism, the rest of Asia would soon follow suit. America gradually became more and more involved until about 1963-1964, when we were doing the best we could and knew that this was a total war. By 1964, the United States was the most involved in the war and we kept sending more and more troops and supplies. When we arrived, we began using new weapons to fight back, such as the use of napalm and the even more lethal, Agent Orange from about 1963 to 1973. There were mostly small problems here and there, but no real military action was taken until January. On October 8, 1966, when the United States launched Operation Crimp, billed as our largest attack of the entire war. Deploying nearly 8,000 soldiers and a number of tanks and other armored vehicles, America set out to locate as many VietCong camps as possible. We showed no mercy, but only found a couple of smaller camps and had a couple of good battles. After this "failed" operation, we devised Operation Birmingham, a total search and destroy mission with just over 5,000 soldiers supported by a massive wall of tanks, planes, helicopters, armored vehicles and other artillery launched in April of 1968 and lasted until May 1968. During this period, which lasted from one and a half to two months, we managed to eliminate only about a hundred Viet Cong, but we captured about 500 tons of food and other supplies. However, Operation Birmingham was considered another failure. Since the United States seemed to have failed in every major operation, we eventually withdrew from the war. For example, this war was the first to be broadcast live on television. Why would you televise people running around, getting hurt, and even getting killed? It just doesn't make sense to us, but I'm sure there was a reason. Another fun fact that seems pretty relevant to the topic is that the US state in the Vietnam War that lost the most people in the battle was California with about 5,575. Second place went to New York with nearly 4,119 victims. (archives.gov)After hearing all this information, what do you think? Was the war a mistake? We certainly know this. From all the fighting, the supplies, the money and above all all the senseless loss of life caused by the Vietnam War. Let's just hope we can stay out of conflicts like this in the