Vitenam war/ Iraq war

The war in Vietnam was one of the elements of U .S . global policy and played a significant role in retention of communism spread throughout Southeast Asia and the whole world . The lessons learned by the USA from this war as well as a final victory in the Cold War give grounds to state that despite the formal defeat in Vietnam War this war was not unavailing

From the perspective of the present sovereign state of Vietnam , the Vietnam War began during the Second World War as a `national liberation struggle ' against

Japanese occupation and later against France occupation and only ended in 1975 , after a series of victories over different adversaries , with the forcible incorporation of the state of South Vietnam into North Vietnam . In its entirety , the Vietnam War lasted for nearly three decades (1946-1975 , and its American phase officially dated from 1964 to 1973 , was longer and more divisive than any other war in which the United States has participated . This war was enormously costly and destructive and had a profound impact in very different ways on the nations that waged it . Moreover , it is obvious that American nation defeated this war . Nevertheless , there are certain reasons that allow the statement that this war was not futile and played a significant role in retention of communist aggression . From this global point of view , Vietnam War has significantly greater meaning than an ordinary military conflict . Another reason why this war can not be considered to be senseless is the experience and conclusions derived by the United States

While the Vietminh was engaging in a bloody anticolonial war with France , the Cold War was taking form . Americans viewed the struggle in Indochina largely in terms of their conflict with the Soviet Union . In this context of a world divided into two hostile power blocs engaged in a game in which a gain for one side was a loss for the other , areas such as Vietnam , previously of marginal importance , took on great significance

When we get into arguments that focus and fully engage our attention we see other reasons why Americans after 1950 growing significance to Vietnam . The first , usually called the domino theory , held that the fall of Vietnam could cause the fall of all Indochina and then the rest of Southeast Asia . The loss of Southeast Asia would deprive the free world ' of important naval bases and raw materials and threaten its strategic position . The lessons of history show that the failure of the Western democracies to stand firm against German and Japanese aggression had encouraged further aggression leading to World War II . Besides that by the example of the Korean War the USA had already had bitter experience of what could have happened to the whole region if timely measures were not taken . Thus the U .S . government had the reasonable and good faith basis for waging the war

The fact that America 's position was dominating raises no doubts . It possessed great national wealth...