Contrast between Korean and Vietnam wars
During the events of the Cold war, many proxy wars began to engulf disputed, independent nations that were considered of importance. Two major wars being the Vietnam war, and the Korean war. The cause of the United State’s involvement in both wars, was the attempt to fight the spread of Communism. The president of the US at the time of the Korean war, Dwight D. Eisenhower, had an ideology that if a country became Communist, then Communism would spread to neighboring countries. Which influenced the United States to become involved in both. Although the circumstance of both wars being different, the overall political objective was to fight Communism.
Despite the main goal being to fight Communism, the wars themselves were different on many aspects. First of being that Korea was far more of a traditional war. Both sides having similar firearms, heavy artillery, and an actual known boundary of who’s side is who’s. Apposed to Vietnam, where men under Ho Chi Minh’s leadership seemingly stood absolutely no chance against the Americans on almost all aspects. The Vietcong had lesser weaponry, lesser training, and just an allover lesser sized military. This unevenness prompted the northern backed troops to resort to guerrilla tactics. Making almost impossible for the United States troops to tell who their enemy truly was. When in comparison to the Korean war, The enemy at least always had a uniform for capitalist backed troops to identify them by. Although, Even if the North Koreans had lesser equipment, guerilla warfare would not be in their advantage, considering the terrain they were fighting on . While on the other hand, Vietnam had choice conditions of a tropical jungle for guerilla tactics. See, Korea’s forests were not dense enough to conceal movement, and making things harder was the heavily guarded border separating the north and south known as the 38th Parallel. Where as in Vietnam, relative locations where only known to be controlled by the Vietcong. Other
Despite the main goal being to fight Communism, the wars themselves were different on many aspects. First of being that Korea was far more of a traditional war. Both sides having similar firearms, heavy artillery, and an actual known boundary of who’s side is who’s. Apposed to Vietnam, where men under Ho Chi Minh’s leadership seemingly stood absolutely no chance against the Americans on almost all aspects. The Vietcong had lesser weaponry, lesser training, and just an allover lesser sized military. This unevenness prompted the northern backed troops to resort to guerrilla tactics. Making almost impossible for the United States troops to tell who their enemy truly was. When in comparison to the Korean war, The enemy at least always had a uniform for capitalist backed troops to identify them by. Although, Even if the North Koreans had lesser equipment, guerilla warfare would not be in their advantage, considering the terrain they were fighting on . While on the other hand, Vietnam had choice conditions of a tropical jungle for guerilla tactics. See, Korea’s forests were not dense enough to conceal movement, and making things harder was the heavily guarded border separating the north and south known as the 38th Parallel. Where as in Vietnam, relative locations where only known to be controlled by the Vietcong. Other