How would you Describe the vietnamese war between 1946 and 1954?

Answer 1

Frankly, the Vietnam War was the Wrong War, at the Wrong Time, with the Wrong People, fought the Wrong Way, for the Wrong Reasons.

The Vietnamese had been struggling to throw off foreign powers for over 30 years before the US became involved- first it was the French, then the Japanese, then the French again, and finally, the Americans. In reality, we involved ourselves in a colonial war, where the local people were mainly trying to simply trying to gain their own country back from foreign overlords.

Yes, most of the revolutionaries were Communist. However, that *should* have been no excuse to side with a corrupt, oppressive government, which was what the South Vietnamese Government most certainly was. The SVG was despised by its own people, and few of the SV citizenry really welcomed outsiders. Few SV wanted a Communist state, but the existing SV government was little better than a corrupt Dictatorship.

The war was completely mismanaged, from both a military and a political point of view. The US looked at Vietnam through our own biases, and saw what we wanted to see, not what was actually happening. Consequently, we made a long series of poor decisions, which ended up killing a bunch of Americans to no good purpose, and a much larger number of Vietnamese (50,000 dead US, 1 million+ dead Vietnamese). The reality was that the nature of the war was a civil war fought with both guerilla and traditional combat tactics. The U.S. chose to view it as a war of invasion, and assumed that traditional combat was the primary mode. Thus, the political and military tactics chosen were based on a misconception of the actual type of war being fought, and were ineffective or misdirected.

Answer 2

The helicopter war. Also the first aluminum war; the brand new assault rifle, also known as the "Mattel" (a toy manufacturer), "the black rifle" (due to its black plastic stock and forearm), but semi-officially as the "Jungle Rifle" by the US Government (due to its issuance only to jungle warfare operations in 1962), the M16 was constructed of aluminum (minus the barrel); the M551 Sheridan light tank (officially designated as the Armored Airborne Reconnaissance Assault Vehicle) the US Army's only amphibious tank was built of aluminum (minus turret and 152mm main gun); the US Navy's riverine boat, the PCF-Patrol Craft Fast (Swift Boat-a 50 foot all aluminum vessel of the US Navy's "Brown Water Navy"); the M113 APC/ACAV an all aluminum armored personnel carrier/armored cavalry assault vehicle...so effective, its still used by the US Army today in the 21st century.

Answer 3

Probably the most intense fighting during the Vietnam war was in the skies over North Vietnam. US airmen flew air strikes thru histories most intense anti-aircraft fire. Radar controlled AAA batteries, SAMs, the ever present small arms, and North Viet Air Force MiG17s, MiG19s (actually J6s), and MiG21s. Nearly every US POW during the war was a US airman.

Answer 4

Vietnamese War sounds like Vietnamese fighting amongst themselves. From 1946 to 1954, the Vietnamese (Viet Minh) were fighting the French, hence, the French Indochina War.

Answer 5

Hot battle of the cold war.