POWs

[C. G. Estabrook]

The troops were a good bit more than unruly.  The US learnt as the French
had in Southeast Asia that it's difficult to fight a colonial war with a
conscript army.  There was essentially a mutiny of the American army on
the ground in Vietnam.  That led eventually to the withdrawal of US troops
("Vietnamization") and the end of the draft (the "volunteer army"). --CGE

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 jbrown72073 at cs.com wrote:


> 
> I'd have to disagree there.  The primary cause of the withdrawal from
> Vietnam was the fight put up by the Vietnamese, only secondarily the
> opposition back home and the unruliness of the troops.  These
> encouraged each other, of course.  This assumes that there is a
> military objective, other than selling and consuming military
> hardware.
> 
> Jenny Brown
> 
>