... upon the nature and the cause of the American defeat. Nevertheless, very few scholars have devoted their efforts to answer why the United States had spent almost a quarter of the century intervening the disastrous incident in Vietnam since they have never found the exact explanation and its actual causes. Accordingly, this paper will therefore analyze the reasons why the United States took very long time to extricate itself from Vietnam. The long lasting adversarial relationship with the Soviet Union is considered as one of the most important reasons contributing to the American longest involvement in warfare. The Vietnam War is not merely a civil war fought between the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese, it turns out to be a proxy war between the United States and its main rival, the Soviet Union as well. Hess argues that: In the post-World War II period, that historic vision of promoting ...

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