How Arrogance and Ignorance Doomed the U.S. in Vietnam
QUAGMIRES ARE US
Bettmann/Getty
Overconfident and unprepared, the U.S. stumbled into Vietnam, just as it would stumble in Afghanistan and Iraq decades later, with equally disastrous results.
In 1965, the United States was widely regarded as the most powerful and prosperous nation on earth. The country was in the forefront of expanding the boundaries of democracy and free institutions abroad.
