Editorials & Other Articles

1. Poor planning. And poor intel.

2. Poorly defined reasons for getting into a war and poorly defined outcomes for the war to end.
Even Trump knows neither.

3. Declaring America to be the 'Good Guys'.
And the good guys always win, right?

4. America sees itself as the David in the David and Goliath story.
Other countries see America as Goliath. You are fighting on their soil, after all.
Older Vietnamese talk of the 'invaders' finally leaving.
The invaders in their eyes were the Americans.

4. Expecting the self declared moral superiority and very expensive weapons to be the deciding factor.

5. Expecting every war to be a replay of WW2 with its successful intervention by America.

. . . probably more from others.