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Conflict 31 min

The Vietnam War: Why a Superpower Lost to Peasants

America counted bodies. Vietnam counted on something else entirely.

The United States spent $168 billion and 58,000 lives on the Vietnam War. It lost — not because of military failure, but because it trusted its spreadsheets more than its judgment. This is the story of how ideology, institutional momentum, and a fundamental misreading of an enemy's willingness to suffer produced the defining defeat of the American century.

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