If you really talk about defeat, it is the Vietnamese one, and the Battle of Mogadishu is a military failure, which is not the same as the defeat.
As a result of the Korean War, the front line ended on the 38th Parallel, and in this war, China and the United States had no losers, and the purpose was actually achieved. And what is more interesting is that at the time of the five battles, the two sides began to negotiate a truce, and all actions on the battlefield were aimed at increasing chips on the negotiating table. The follow-up battles were all fought, and they were not willing to attack too far, the strategy of the United States was obvious, MacArthur was withdrawn, and after the withdrawal of MacArthur, the United States and the Soviet Union immediately met secretly and expressed that they did not want to fight.
I don't want to fight a good deal, negotiate a ceasefire, and finally ink for two years, the negotiations are successful, and the ceasefire is over. There was only one loser in this war, that is, a family on both sides of the 38th line, which became two families completely. In this war, China and the United States belong to the end of the war with dignity.
The vietnam war that followed was the most silent battle for the United States, which kept ground forces in South Vietnam and then air forces bombed North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese troops have been infiltrating south Vietnam continuously, infiltrating once and maiming once, then going back to repair, full of blood and resurrecting again, and being maimed again........ After a few years of fighting, the Americans suddenly realized, why are we fighting this battle? Moreover, a large number of young Americans fled to Canada and Sweden to avoid military service. Beginning in '67, large-scale anti-war activities began in the United States, and by '68 they had spread throughout the country. At this time, the mainstream public opinion is anti-war, and this battle cannot be fought. When Nixon came to power, he began to advocate the withdrawal of troops, and 25,000 people were immediately withdrawn when he came to power.
Nixon proposed the "New Asia Policy" in Guam, a policy of using Asians to fight Asians and Vietnamization in the Vietnam War. Let the American troops withdraw, let the Vietnamese beat their own people. In 1973, the American troops withdrew, originally thinking of letting the North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese fight, the result was that the level of North Vietnam was too poor, Nguyen Van Thieu these people were not able to do it at all, and were pushed flat by the North Vietnamese.
In this war, the United States was selling teammates to run. Kennedy's inaugural speech at that time shouted that he wanted to protect his freedom and protect his friends at all costs. This is the attitude of the Americans at that time, the Vietnamese are our friends, we want to protect him. Later, the Vietnam War cost too much manpower and material resources, and the Americans began to be dissatisfied again, and finally sold their teammates and ran.
This war was purely because the Americans did not understand that the front line was always in South Vietnam, and they wanted to weaken North Vietnam, and they were unwilling to clash with China and the Soviet Union, and the last momentum was wasted in South Vietnam. This consumption, in the end, becomes meaningless. Saying that they wanted to protect their allies, the front line advanced, and finally withdrew, and the allies were destroyed again, and the battle was lost. But Vietnam was also miserable, with 1.1 million deaths and 58,000 U.S. troops.
In the subsequent wars, the United States actually did not lose a single one. The Gulf War, the crushing of Saddam Hussein, the Kosovo War, the ground forces are useless, the War in Afghanistan, the Taliban regime GG for a month, the Iraq War, and another month for the fall of Baghdad. These wars are crushing victories.
Many people criticize the war in Afghanistan, saying that the United States lost. This war can also be said to see if the United States loses or loses. The earliest was the Retaliation of the United States against Afghanistan because of the 9/11 incident, and Afghanistan harbored bin Laden and finally was beaten. The United States sent troops, and within a month, the Taliban escaped from Kabul overnight and hid in the mountains. After that, the Taliban began to fight guerrilla warfare with the US military, and the United States fought a security war for ten years.
It wasn't until 2011, when bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan, that the Obama administration began announcing the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, and that coalition forces in other countries began to shrink. At the 2012 Chicago Summit, NATO decided to hand over command of combat missions to the Afghan government, and coalition forces began to act as a complement. At the beginning of last year, the Trump administration and the Taliban negotiated peace and decided to withdraw all U.S. troops.
Do you say the United States lost this battle? Not really. Almost all of his goals were achieved, and he finally left a pool of mud in Afghanistan and left on his own. U.S. troops have killed 2,400 people in Afghanistan, and at least 200,000 people have died in Afghanistan. The ratio of 100 to 1 is much higher than that of the Vietnam War.
The real failure of the US military operation is Somalia, that war THE US military brushed the sense of existence, did not brush to understand, the last hundred elite special forces are under siege, their own helicopters in the air are still put to death. In the end, the person was released unconditionally, and ash slipped away.
The U.S. military in the Vietnam War was indeed a defeat, and it was a meaningless attrition in Vietnam, and in the end, it could not be consumed. However, this war has also given the US military a wake-up call. In the more than a decade after the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military immersed itself in development, and then in 1991 taught the world another lesson.