Vietnam War

Introduction

The history of the Vietnam War has taken on revived interest from the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. By certainly there are big differences between the two cases, but it is also true that the study of Indo-China war, miserably lost by the U.S, can help understand that the most effectual resistance produced in the framework of a social revolution. This paper discusses the concept presented in the Book “Vietnam: A History” by Stanley Karnow. Keeping in view the Vietnam War and the current U.S war on terror, the book reminds how mush U.S has learnt from the history.

Discussion

The author stresses that as in Vietnam, the superior military might of the United States devastated the country but failed to deal with resistance. In addition, there is also the same problem of distinguishing between allies and enemies. However, according to Karnow, perhaps the most remarkable aspect is that the similarity between the two conflicts is that those who covered Vietnam flooded with lots of details, graphs and statistics designed to show progress presented by civil and military bureaucrats Listening to U.S spokesmen delivering euphoric reports on progress in Iraq reminded of the bulletins from Vietnam who assured people that "victory is just around the corner."Karnow and others warn that although there is growing skepticism and congressional opposition to the war in Iraq, lawmakers approved funding to continue it, as in Vietnam, under the pretext that it must maintain support for the soldiers who risk their lives there (Gotera, pp.46).

For anyone that war, the economy - finance is always one of the first important issue. In particular, "in terms imperialists launched an unjust war of aggression ... the ability to pursue the war depends largely concentrated in the financial empire in the hands of government" When expanded to invade Vietnam War, the U.S. financial statistics for that expense ratio for the Vietnam War only about 3%. And according to that calculation, the Vietnam War is not nowhere to champion the economic strength of America. However, the reality has proven so-called "war of three percent," the U.S. has caused the economic problems, political, social, tough, more complicated all the major wars that America has been involved before. The tough, complex was expressed most clearly through the huge costs that the United States have been exposed. The sources of information and the different ways that led to the data base is quite diverse ranging from 515 billion to 1647 billion dollars. Those figures are close but not identical even though showed the Vietnam War, the war is extremely expensive waste of people, it was "gutted" the U.S. budget a huge amount of money. The amount was greater than any war in U.S. history except for the World War II. We can say the huge costs have weakened U.S. imperialism. Our initial ambition is based on the strong potential to dominate the world. However, the Vietnam War did the negative of the economy. Because, to be able to nurture war machine, investment spending ...