The Vietnam War: Was There Anyway America Could Have Won?

That's a very good question, if politics stayed out of it, there's a high probability we would have.

Define win. I cannot verify, but someone once told me that there was no case where a US rifle platoon sized unit or larger was defeated.

If winning was defined as killing every living soul that offered resistance; yes we, could have won. That was not a victory we were willing to claim.

If winning was defined as achieving a lasting peace with an incorrupt South Vietnamese government that had enough popular support to successfully overcome South Vietnamese insurgents and North Vietnamese forces; maybe, but we kept backing the wrong horse. It is incredibly hard for Americans to understand third world cultures where the populace has a certain fatalistic attitude to bad government.

Yes - let the generals run the war and cut out the micromanaging by civilian leadership.