Military history of Asia

6 Introduction to the Class Monday, January 31, 2011 11:16 AM Vietnam is the longest war that the US got involved in. We have gotten US supplies in Vietnam since 1955. The reason why 1955 is so important is because l-955 is the year when the US decides to take over what the French were unable to do. The Thing about Vietnam is it's a country that is defined by the idea that other: people have conquered it . It spent about half of it's known existence under someone's control by either the Chinese or the French. What we have to understand about The Vietnamese people is that they don't want to be controlled by some outsider that they really wanted control themselves. And in 1955, We tried to put our control