Vietnam War History

The Vietnam War was a very significant period for the United States. However, a new kind of war is developing. It is very different from the mass conflict of the First World War when governments mobilized millions of men and vast industrial resources (Cockburn). In recent statistics, wars have got smaller, but are equally and, on occasions, more vicious than the past. The United States tries to avoid conflict with other countries and nations, but however, that does not stop us from getting involved into conflicts that we do not want to partake in. But, war has and will always be significantly changing in our eyes. The most dramatic changes would be the number of troops, supplies, and causalities that are resulted from the war, which, we can …show more content…
The Vietnam War was a very significant period for the United States. The Vietnam War is perhaps the most controversial war in the 20th century, mostly due to the fact that the Vietnam War was the first conflict to be universally televised (Nelson). News outlets began traveling to the front lines to show what war was like for those men and women on the front lines. These news outlets often showed the war live on television, without editing, gruesomely broadcasting the atrocities of war to everybody watching. Naturally these depicted images of graphic violence sparked outrage and increased awareness about what was happening in Vietnam (Rhon). With that being said, the Vietnam War lasted for a total number of nineteen years. The Vietnam War consisted of 500,000 men, of that half million men, it was consisted of marines, soldiers, airmen, sailors, and Coast Guardsmen. Majority of the men deployed only stayed in Vietnam for one tour. The Vietnam People's Ground Forces relied almost entirely on Soviet-derived weapons and equipment systems. However, in this time Vietnam used the system of draft cards for men born between 1944-1950 a draft card is a card that is mailed to you by the government declaring that you are to go to