What were the Vietnam and Korean wars all about?

Question

Why were these wars fought and what brought them about? I hear people say that the war in Iraq is another Vietnam. Is that true?

Answer 1

There reasons were not quite the same. Korea is even further displaced.

Vietnam was a last chance grasp on an idea of solid coloniolism. As the French were loosing their Colony of Vietnam to underground communists, they realized their losses were not worth the benefits of holding the colony. America was afraid of 1) allowing Vietnam to swing Communist simply because of America's strong anticommunist values and relations with the Soviet Union and China at the time. 2) America was interested in holding the colony for its economic aspects that the French had originally enjoyed.

The reason they are compared is that they are both underground insurgent wars. That is ... in Vietnam the US fought against an organized rebel group of communists, yet were allied with the Vietnamiese official government. The same is true in Iraq (now that we have a new government we set up) we are allied with it against a group of rebels who wish to overthrow imperialist rule.

The other reason it is compared is because we are in Iraq for our interests only, not the interests of world safety. The same went for Vietnam.

Korea was quite differant and was an official UN war, many people compare it to Vietnam due to the communist situation, the geographic location, and the civil war aspect.

Korea ended in a stalemate, do this day is seperated into North and South Korea.

Vietnam lasted over 10 years, and in the end the US pulled out and the Vietnamiese government fell to Communist rule.

Answer 2

Vietnam and Corea have very little in common. The US and the UK got into Vietnam as French efforts to keep its Asian colonies failed. Here we were supporting an incompetent government that could never win over the "hearts and minds" of its own people. The comparison with Iraq is inevitable.

Corea, however, is a different matter. Though we never intended the former Japanese colony to become divided, Stalin did. Really, we hobbled South Corea, whose President Singman Rhee wanted reunification, with limits on his military strength so he could not try it. Stalin, on the other hand, gave Kim Il Jung everything he needed to complete a "reunification" under his own terms. This includes some 30,000 seasoned troops who had fought through Chinese Civil War, T-34 tanks and Yak aircraft, opposing a South which had none of the above, still struggling to recreate an infrastructure which had been destroyed by the Japanese.

So, when Kim's forces unexpectedly drove into the South on 25 June 1950, there was virtually nothing in their way. The US would have had to oppose this in any case, but good fortune dictated that the USSR, which had veto power in the Security Council, was in one of its pouts, so the North Corean invasion became a UN matter.

In 1964 people in power were equating Vietnam to this, but they were very wrong.

Answer 3

The wars were fought to keep Communism out of those countries. People say the war in Iraq is like Vietnam because the U.S. military got stuck in Vietnam and could not win. Some people feel that the U.S. is sending troops to fight an unwinnable war in Iraq, just like in Vietnam

Answer 4

Vietnam and Korea were European possessions obtained in the late 1800's during a land grab that occured when China was most vulnerable to takeover because they they were fighting with each other. (kind of like vultures circling their pray). France had possession of Vietnam, then known as Indo-China, and I believe but am not sure, that Japan later had possession of Korea. After World War II, Japan was forced out of China/Korea and France no longer had the resources to control Vietnam. The newly formed Communist China wanted to control Vietnam and Korea, and the US was willing to fight anyone wishing to expand Communism.

Iraq is similar in that it seems to be an unwinnable war, just as Vietnam and Korea turned out to be.

Answer 5

Vietnam and Korea were about stemming the rise of communism. Iraq is far from Vietnam. The only similarities are guerrilla warfare and protesters. Much like in Vietnam and Korea, we need to drop the hammer on our enemies and put a decisive end to the conflict. But dis-information is swaying the public, and support for our efforts. If we are to fail in Iraq, as many Americans want us to, we will be handing control of the entire Middle East over to Islamic Terrorists. Much like the Vietnam aftermath, where 3 million Vietnamese and Cambodians were slaughtered, if we leave Iraq, the death toll will be staggering. Not only there, but here as well. If we are viewed as weak, the terrorist will be further emboldened, and we will once again have to deal with them, but this time, it will be on OUR soil.

I'm not even going to go into the economic problems we will have if Iran gets control of the Middle East. Not to point at oil, but do we really want Iran in control of the spigot?

Let's keep fighting them..but let's do it over there.

Answer 6

Korea is time-venerated because of the fact the Forgotten conflict.It develop into called a Police action and a stop hearth develop into signed yet there in no way develop right into a peace treaty,so technically, we are nonetheless at conflict with the North Koreans. consequently we nonetheless have approximately 30,000 troops close to the DMZ.( The border between the North and South). in case you talking approximately infantrymen death, there have been greater in Vietnam than Korea. yet another theory may well be the time the U.S. develop into in touch, Korea develop into 3 years and Vietnam lasted greater beneficial than ten years. the yankee human beings do unlike long in touch conflicts which Vietnam develop into.

Answer 7

Both were fought to stem the tide of spreading Communism. The Iraq war is liken to Vietnam because there are business interests in voled; it's a quagmire that is hard to pull away from without losing face; we didn't understand what we were getting into, and our govt won't admit they made a mistake.

Answer 8

Yeah, what FRANKFUSS said.. Iraq is like another Vietnam because there is a violently loud minority in America who keep telling everyone that the war in Iraq is unwinable. Vietnam was winable, so is Iraq.

Answer 9

Hi ice demon!!!

This wars are all about POLITICS ang CONFLICT OF INTERESTS.

And why is it that this wars are like the never ending stories?
Because these are two reasons that people can't never agree on.

POLITICS reflects POWER and CONFLICT OF INTERERST reflects greedyness!!!!

Who's going to agree on something like that???? Nobody!!

Everybody wants to be in control, and everyone would like to be the richest!!!!!

The only way to end this nonesence wars is to; Go back and accept that the world belongs to GOD,everyone who lives on it,are guests!!!

And that the richesness of it also belongs to GOD, and everyone who claim it will be the last and the poorest one of all!!!

This war is NOT different from the rest. NONSENCE!!!
And at the end we have this question to answer ourselves.....!!!!

Who is the one holding the contract or lease for this world???

And if someone claim to be the sole owner, we like the reciept.

Also who is holding the ownership of the richest of this world???

And if some claims to be the owner, please come forward with the reicept.

All people in general need direction, but the directions we need are from GOD, NOT from other men who are so away far from truth and perfection!!!

GOD BLESS YOU & HAPPY LIFE

A.Z.

Answer 10

Yes.In the sense that 'Vietnam' and 'Iraq' are both unmitigated foreign policy disasters.