General William Westmoreland kept up the raising number of troops that went to Vietnam by 1965 and 1967. By 1968, Westmoreland decided he wanted to employ a strategy where the main objective of which was to find and kill National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese regular units. Westmoreland later said that his “Search and destroy did reflect traditional US Army doctrine.” The General also thought that once the enemy was ruined, then maybe the South Vietnamese government could stabilize its position and negotiate with them so the terms would be in the United States’ favor. The Vietnamese did not back down and quit.

Overall, I believe that the Americans shouldn’t have gotten involved in the first place with the Vietnamese because we had no business to begin with in there and with 13,500 died Americans by the late 1967, they had already lost the war before the stepped off that plane. Everyone over there should have taken care of this problem without our help because as of now, I think going into the Vietnam War was the biggest mistake the United States of America made.

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