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Why was Vietnam considered a “different kind of war?”

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there was moral ambiguity in Vietnam. America faced an ill-defined enemy that was hard to distinguish from civilians. There were American atrocities and massacres of unarmed civilians. So in this war there was actuality no real good or bad guy

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