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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
Also, he died in 1964, before Vietnam was escalated to a conflict, preventing him from being able to be a general during Vietnam. Also, he would have been in his late 80s.
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before Vietnam escalated into a conflict?
The conflict started in 1945, and the US was involved from the very beginning as the OSS, in fact, Ho Chi Minh was named Agent 19 of the OSS in 1946..... By 1954 when the French failed, US military advisors were sent in to boost the puppet Diem regime, and even Kennedy personally admitted to US military deaths in combat in Vietnam during 1961-1963. US Generals were heavily involved both in the advisorary level and in combat since the mid 1950s, and so, perhaps, yes, considering the conflict has US involvement since 1945, MacArthur could have and probably did have involvement in US military action in Vietnam (the country, not the specific US "war" supposedly between 1965-1974)
...."President Kennedy first began to have doubts about our military effort in
Vietnam in 1961 when both
General Douglas MacArthur and General Charles de Gaulle warned him that
the Asian mainland was no place to be fighting a
non-nuclear land war. There was
no end to Asian manpower,
MacArthur told the President, and even if we
poured a million American infantry soldiers into that continent, we would still find ourselves outnumbered on every side. De Gaulle said the same thing in Paris that spring, pointing out that the French had shown us the hopelessness of trying to fight in that country."