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Why was the Vietnam War conflict a difficult war to fight for American and South Vietnam soldiers?

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Why was the Vietnam War conflict a difficult war to fight for American and South Vietnam soldiers?

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We could not invade North Vietnam without risking intervention by Red China or the Soviet Union (as happened in the Korean War 1950-1953). We couldn’t use atomic weapons with out risking the same results. We could not isolate the flow of enemy men & material into South Vietnam, as we had successfully done in the Korean War (because Korea was on a Peninsula.