In what ways did the Vietnam imbroglio alter the us role in the world?

For the first time since the US Civil War, the US Navy created a "Brown Water Navy" to operate separately from their "Blue Water Navy" (Regular Fleet). While the regular fleet provided air strikes...

If a US Armored Cavalry Squadron (equivalent to a battalion) was in position for the night at an NDP site (Night Defensive Position), the US cavalrymen would be told the day/night previous, that...

War tactics didn't change, much. Just the media coverage that the people seen in the states changed,

Destroying communists in South Vietnam, and destroying the communist's will to make war in North Vietnam (bombing them during the air war).

Well... maybe. We supply a lot of goods. But I don't know....probably. L:)