The Vietnam War was a civil war between communist-backed North Vietnam and the US-backed South Vietnam. US military advisers were sent during the 1950s, but it wasn't until 1965 that active combat units were introduced and left in 1973. The war resulted in the death of around three million Vietnamese and fifty-eight thousand Americans (Britannica, Vietnam War). The introduction of US troops in Vietnam has been at the center of many moral debates on whether this intervention was ethical. The US intervention will be analyzed using the virtue ethics perspective by pitting two virtues against…