How is the Vietnam war a case study for wider conflict?

Answer 1

One reason is that we got in Vietnam to supposedly stop the spread of Communism. It was in a sense a conflict against the ideas of democracy and communism. In the war it was a conflict with the haves ( people who avoided going because they had money) and the have nots. People who were drafted.

It also had people who supported and hated the war.

Answer 2

One way that the wars in Vietnam can be a case study for wider conflicts is to learn about the war from the other side - that's right - from the point of the Vietnamese people. Not from the American side, nor from the French. You will notice that very few do this, even here on Yahoo! Answers.

This was a war fought by a people who wanted social, political, and economic control over their country. A war of independence. Does that sound familiar? When the French warned the Americans that their anti-Communist "containment" would come to naught - they were ignored.

The Vietnamese people, like the Russian people, and like the Chinese people had to fight their revolutions against an outside aggressor - whose attempts to deny their revolutions all failed. It is not only a case for wider conflict - it is a case for deeper study.