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The US pretty much DID WIN the war against (South) Vietnam. The real aim was to 'prevent economic and social development in Vietnam'. In this sense the aims of the government and the success of the military proved the war to be a great success- of course by any moral and sane view the war was a tragic disgrace, but, Vietnam remains to be a failure with no meaningful development and this was the ONLY viable aim of the US government. We now KNOW that the claims that Vietnam had important material resources (tin,rubber ...) has been proven false and their material insignificant, the containment of communism - hardly, Vietnam was more nationalism than communism, domino theory- McNamara even admits that was BS, Minh; puppet of the Kremlin? proven to be bs, protect national security- lol... as stated the US succeeded in its only real aims in Vietnam; halting socio-economic development and meaningful prosperity of the Vietnamise.