Counterinsurgencies differencies between The Indian War and Vietnam

A Comparison Between the Insurgencies of Vietnam and the Indian Wars

Insurgencies wars have been waged throughout history . The United States is no stranger to having been involved in insnation itself was founded on an insOf all the insinvolved , the most bloody were those dealing with the US involvement in Vietnam and in the Indian Wars of the 19th century . While both the Vietnam War and the Indian Wars can be defined as insthere are radical differences between the conflicts

In the landscape of Vietnam , the country had been split into two separate entities

: North Vietnam and South Vietnam . North Vietnam developed into a communist and the Soviet Union while South Vietnam developed into an incredibly corrupt and mismanaged capitalist country allied with the United States The corruption and problems with the government running the South lead to the significant growth of an anti-government communist group dubbed the Viet Cong (a corruption of the words Vietnamese Communists developed into an insgovernment of the South as the Viet Cong agreed with North Vietnam 's assertion that Vietnam was one country and not two and supported a North Vietnamese invasion to unify the country

This situation was further compounded by the fact that there were millions of people in the South that did not wish to fall under communist rule and supported the maintenance of a separate South Vietnamese government . Furthermore , the United States had vital interests in the form of free market investments in the South (this was a major reason the United States funded France 's war with Vietnam prior to French defeat ) as well as a defense treaty with the South Vietnamese government which pledged protection to the South Vietnamese government

In the years following the French defeat in Vietnam , the North Vietnamese had a buffer ' period where they were able to set up an insin motion a group that would be able to provide internal instability in the case military conflict would have been required if the unification of the North and South would require military action

It is equally clear that North Vietnamese communists operated some form of subordinate apparatus in the South in the years 1954-1960 theless , the Viet Minh "stay-behinds " were not directed originally to structure an insextent or effectiveness of communist activities in the period 1956-1959 From all indications , this was a period of reorganization and recruiting by the communist party . No direct links have been established between Hanoi and perpetrators of rural violence . Statements have been found in captured party histories that the communists plotted and controlled the entire insBernard Fall ingeniously correlated DRV complaints to the ICC of incidents in South Vietnam in 1957 with GVN reports of the same incidents , and found Hanoi suspiciously well informed . He also perceived a pattern in the terrorism of 1957-1959 , deducing that a broad centrally directed strategy was being implemented . However , there is little other corroborative evidence that Hanoi instigated the incidents much less orchestrated them

Eventually , military action did occur as the North sought...