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Military gets overhyped. The U.S. Armed Forces have not successfully managed to root out a guerilla force ever. It's why they lost in Vietnam and why they keep losing in the Middle East. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure if any modern military is actually equipped to handle a mobilized, armed revolution from their own civilians.
War overseas isn't same as insurgency at home.
Also, Americans have been living pretty comfortable lives compared to tough mofos in Vietnam and Afghanistan where poverty and instability is/was the norm. Few weeks of hardships and the insurgency in US will die out.
I think the main reason is that the war lost popular support back home.
I'd argue that if the Army was more effective at fighting againt guerillas, they'd have achieved victory before popular support waned.
Yeah. what was that war about again? Preventing communism?
Maintaining French colonial holdings.
Was it? Man, their marketing sucked.