Its all about making profit out of conflicts by the military industrial complex and shadow govt. The lowly soldiers were but expendables made as human sacrifices . The late president D Eisenhower had warned of the growing influence of the MIC in 1961 before leaving office . Pres JFK tried his best to get America out of Vietnam but he was taken out . Then Lyndon Johnson did not waste his time and expanded the war by the false flag known as Tonkin Gulf Incident. The rest was history
https://www.pbs.org/video/deja-vu-1858-1961-ucsq9s/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY