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The conventional view remains that the United States lost the Vietnam War because USA's opponent, North Vietnam, conquered the side USA backed, South Vietnam, which surrendered in April 1975. Although the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sustained enormous casualties — upward of a million killed by wounds, disease and malnutrition — the communists eventually prevailed.
Others argue the United States did not lose the war because all U.S. combat forces had departed South Vietnam by the beginning of 1973, more than two years before the final North Vietnamese victory. In this view, the war was a political failure — the United States had failed to keep South Vietnam independent and noncommunist — but it had NOT been a defeat for the U.S. military itself.
https://www.historynet.com/did-united-states-lose-vietnam-war/
Others argue the United States did not lose the war because all U.S. combat forces had departed South Vietnam by the beginning of 1973, more than two years before the final North Vietnamese victory. In this view, the war was a political failure — the United States had failed to keep South Vietnam independent and noncommunist — but it had NOT been a defeat for the U.S. military itself.
https://www.historynet.com/did-united-states-lose-vietnam-war/