The Vietnam War was called the the first _____. answers.com

It gets across the absolute sacrificial determined tenacity of the north Vietnamese and Viet Cong people - hand made IEDs and mind boggling hard graft versus the richest most technically advanced, but often disillusioned, army in the world (not the last time this would happen).

It explores and reports the socio-political aspects, the strategies and technologies, the cultural contrasts of the belligerents and most of all the people fighting it. It uses insights from the individuals caught up in it - the Viet Cong & North Vietnamese Army, the US Military & South Vietnamese army, civilians from both sides, politicians and journalists alike, to explain, account and report from the early circumstances causing the build up and outbreak of the war through the fierce intensity at the height of the conflict to the final withdrawal and legacies. The congress then passed a resolution that opened the way to the escalation that resulted in the Vietnam war, in which millions of Vietnamese lost their lives and tens of thousands of young Americans died, too.Over the years I have soaked up every film and documentary I could find on the subject of the Vietnam war, and I can say this series is by far the most profoundly complete I have seen. The executive branch of the US government combined the August 2 report with the FIRST August 4th report (which they it knew had been withdrawn) and made no mention of the withdrawal message, and sent a message to the congress that a US Warship (which was not described as engaged in spy activities) had been attacked by a hostile state. Soon afterward, the captain of the ship withdrew that report, citing the weather and the 'over zealous' character of those sailors.

Some sonar operators on the ship generated messages that the ship was under attack, and a message was sent. Two days later (on August 4) there was a storm out there. On August 2nd, in a defensive move, the navy of North Vietnam sent torpedo boats to drive away the US Navy ship. Those operations would support the sovereign nation of South Vietnam, with which North Vietnam was at war. A US Navy Warship, the USS Maddox, was in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin conducting spy operations on the sovereign nation of North Vietnam.

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