Why Abrams Won The Vietnam War

The start of the book in the late 1970 the United States had pretty much won the Vietnam War. We had defeated the Viet Cong in the field, returned most of the control to the South Vietnamese and where the South Vietnamese could continue the war on their own. This is when Army General Creighton Abrams replaced William Westmoreland in 1968, after the military defeat but public relations disaster of the Tet Offensive. Where Westmoreland had treated the War as a military exercise, Abrams understood its political side. Abrams worked on developing a new war plan at the Pentagon. Also ended Westmoreland's focus on body counts and destroying the enemy and then focused to regaining control of villages.

Abrams was joined by Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and by William Colby, the new CIA chief in Saigon, who

role in Vietnam, believing the economic cost was too high; in November of 1969 a second march on Washington drew an estimated 500,000 participants. Most people disapproved of the culture that had gone alongside the antiwar movement. The battle for Hamburger Hill was not as bad as the battle for Pork Chop Hill in Korea. The Final U.S. casualties were 46 dead and 400 wounded. While these numbers were high, Hamburger Hill was not the worst fight of the war. The Hamburger Hill losses were much smaller, but they set off a protest back home. The American people were growing to hate the war. A February 1969 poll revealed that only 39 percent still supported the war; while 52 percent believed sending troops to fight in Vietnam had been a mistake.

The Cambodian Campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. These invasions were a result of the policy of President Richard Nixon. A total of 13 major operations were conducted by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam between April 29 and July 22 and by US forces between May 1 and June