The Vietnam War myth

[Bear]

I'm a veteran of that "war" and I agree, the war was a demonstration that the U.S. had the will to make "geopolitical war" to the Chinese. Communism had nothing to do with it, that was a political theory (Domino Theory) fed to America to sell fear and support for the war.
Long before communism, China tried to conquer Vietnam (Indochina region) and failed. The Japanese failed. The French failed as well as the U.S. (if you subscribe to the propaganda that we went to Vietnam to win by establishing an ally and permanent DMZ i.e. Korea.) The U.S. itself became destabilized by the war when it's people got smart. The irony is that the U.S. did not directly hold the line against Chinese expansion but a united Vietnam did. United after the U.S. withdrawal when the North over ran the south. And at that time there was immense pressure put on the Ford administration by the conservatives in the U.S. Congress to bomb all the assets we left behind...billions of dollars in aircraft, helicopters, AFVs, mechanized artillery, tons of ammunition, air bases, fuel tank fields, etc. were left alone. To empower the Vietnamese to defend themselves and by God the Chinese did try to overrun Vietnam and failed. Mainly because the Chinese could not gain air supremacy against the Russian and American aircraft and air defense systems. American artillery was also effective and the Chinese suffered serious losses on land and in the air.