Military History- Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was misled from the beginning. The war involved the arrogance of authority and power. The main supporters of the containment policy were wrong in the first case. Containment policy was a defective policy as reflected in its lack of concern to the Southeast Asia history (Hagopian, 2009). The communism obsession of its leaders resulted into a deeper tragedy of the U.S. Leaders believed in the mission of America, as well as, in the usual superiority of all that America did. However, they were wrong. This presented a question of who the real enemy was.The Communist China, the U.S.S.R., and the Vietcong were, therefore, not the real enemies, but the protestors in the U.S. were. In fact, Chinese were anxious about the U.S. This, however, does not mean that they should be underestimated as enemies of Vietnam because they each played their role. The U.S. lost the war due to the foreign policy of America. The policy was aimed at stopping the spread of Communism rather than to eliminate it (Hagopian, 2009). The U.S. lost the war because they surrendered. Although it had the opportunity to destroy Communism, they did not have authorization and, hence failed to achieve their main goal.The principles of the containment policy were not based on realistic grounds, and the U.S. was mainly focused on their interests in the country. For instance, the assumption that countries must be aligned with the U.S.S.R. or the U.S. was not realistic. China supported Communism, although it had failed to overrule in the years of its enmity with Russia (Hagopian, 2009). The U.S. was the enemy because it was afraid of the international spread of Communism, although the policy made it hard to see countries as different with different problems, different cultures, and different histories.ReferenceHagopian, P. (2009). . Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.