>>428887it wasn't war like it used to be, television delivered the unsavory nature of it to spoiled post ww2 children who cried about it
suddenly civilian casualities weren't okay so an effective war (against a guerilla civil resistance) couldn't be fought
now that said militarily america did alright with its handicap but it was a propaganda war just like everything about the cold war, so pretty much by every measure they lost even with their great kill/death ratio