ed, American leaders decided to not back out of the war. In fact, the Johnson administration dramatically escalated the number of troops in the country. Meanwhile, the enemy increasingly undermined America's military objectives, as seen, for example, in the surprise attacks of the Tet Offensive in 1968. Antiwar protests developed among Americans who were opposed to the war and saw it as futile as well as wasteful in terms of money and lives. After the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, the American people continued to be shaken by the war for many years. In this regard, the Vietnam War has been described as "a long, tragic, losing struggle in a tiny country that cost millions of lives and deeply scarred the America
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