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What are similarities and differences between soldiers fighting in the Vietnam war and the current war in Iraq?In: Vietnam War, Iraq War |
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vietnam is woodland country and iraq is desert country
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1. There are some tactical parallels between Iraq and Vietnam. However, these two countries and conflicts might have taken place in an alternate dimension. In Iraq there is no Ho Chi Minh and no NVA.
2. The social dynamics of Iraq and Vietnam are totally different. Iraq is an Arab Tribal Society and the conflict is more inter-comunal in nature. The Shia spend as much time fighting each other as they spend fighting the Sunni's.
3. The only real and significant similiarity between the two conflicts is the U.S. We learned allot from the Vietnam conflict. However, we did not learn enough since we made a number of the same mistakes.
4. The U.S. Military during the Vietnam had allot of Soldiers who were drafted (although a great many men volluntered for combat in Vietnam). The military in Iraq is an all vollunteer force.
If I may add - the enemy is not as clear cut as you may expect. In Vietnam women and children were helping the Vietcong in attacks against the US and allied troops. There are similarities in that respect now as well.
- Of course, on the tactical level this is a similiarity. Of course I would explore the scope and scale of Vietcong employment of women compared with AQ and other groups. The employment of women in war is generally considered more repulsive in the Muslim. AQ's use of woman suicide bombers is considered repulsive by many men and women over there.
The tactical similiarities are not the key difference between Vietnam and Iraq, the operational and strategic differences are the key.
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