... as The Vietnam Revolution did. Although, in the end, communism reigned in Vietnam, the effect the war had on the world was the beginning of the end of the dominance of communist leadership in many similar nations. The Vietnam Revolution was an epilogue of events that started way before the conflict that occurred during the 1960's and 1970's. Vietnam began its mark on the world, when ... the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily" (Duiker 55). At the time, the United States was in the midst of its own conflict with Russia, which was called the Cold War. After W...

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... . Dry socks were hard to come by in the early years of the war. Vietnam was know as the helicopter war. The "chopper" that was in use 1965 was the CH-46 Jolly Green Giant. This big and slow helicopter was lightly armed with a single .30 caliber machine gun in the door. A Korean war veteran, the "Jolly Green" made the infantry highly mobile and deployable ... as Rolling Thunder and Arc Light strikes. The tonnage of bombs dropped in Vietnam actually outstripped the tonnage of bombs dropped in World War II. Nonetheless, target selection was difficult against the hidden and rural, non-indust...

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... traumatizing event. How did I kill my own brother? Why did this war ever start? This horrifying event is a great example of the futility and tragedy of war. In the story, the sniper and his brother were separated when the civil war started. It turned whole families against each other. An example of this is the "Korean War-. Families that lived all over Korea were separated from each other ... are shattered, friends turn against each other, crowds turn in confusion and whole cities erupt into battlefields. During war, thousands die every day and for what? What does war solve? War is the r...

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