As shown in the video, US defense secretary Mr. McNamara in 1963 returned after a tour to Vietnam. There were total of 16000 military advisors were there in the South Vietnam. He and President Kennedy announced the plan to remove all US personal from Vietnam in next two years. At the end of 1963, there was a coup in south Vietnam and the President of South Vietnam President Diem assassinated along with his brother. After President Kennedy assignation, Johnson sworn-in as the next President of the USA. In 1964, President Johnson committed to the Vietnamese freedom. Everyone in the US feared that if military personnel pulled out than that part of world will go to communist. Nobody understood what is going on in the Vietnam. Situation was going
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One of the destroyer Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese patrol war. And on August 4, 1964, two other destroyers reported that they were attacked. They reported that there may be total of nine torpedoes fired. But no one was certain of the attack. President Johnson sent resolution to congress to give him full authority to go for war with Vietnam. US bombed North Vietnam and lunched biggest bombings attack called Rolling Thunder. As McNamara said in the video “Events showed out judgement of attack that was wrong. We see incorrectly. We see what we want to believe. Belief and seeing both have been wrong.”
War with Vietnam was happened due to misunderstanding. Vietnamese believed that US attacked on Vietnam was to replace French as a colonial power and to make Vietnam as a US colony. US saw a Vietnam as an element of a cold war and feared that Vietnam will become a communist country. As mentioned by former Vietnam Foreign minister in the video that Vietnamese cannot tolerate foreign power and they were fighting Chinese from last 1000 years to save their freedom. He also mentioned that US failed to read the history of Vietnam and failed to understand what Vietnamese people
One of the destroyer Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese patrol war. And on August 4, 1964, two other destroyers reported that they were attacked. They reported that there may be total of nine torpedoes fired. But no one was certain of the attack. President Johnson sent resolution to congress to give him full authority to go for war with Vietnam. US bombed North Vietnam and lunched biggest bombings attack called Rolling Thunder. As McNamara said in the video “Events showed out judgement of attack that was wrong. We see incorrectly. We see what we want to believe. Belief and seeing both have been wrong.”
War with Vietnam was happened due to misunderstanding. Vietnamese believed that US attacked on Vietnam was to replace French as a colonial power and to make Vietnam as a US colony. US saw a Vietnam as an element of a cold war and feared that Vietnam will become a communist country. As mentioned by former Vietnam Foreign minister in the video that Vietnamese cannot tolerate foreign power and they were fighting Chinese from last 1000 years to save their freedom. He also mentioned that US failed to read the history of Vietnam and failed to understand what Vietnamese people