About 27 times
If you were a Vietnamese nationalist, it would be regarded as a success.If you were pro-South Vietnam, it would be regarded as a failure.
The policy of Soviet (Communist) containment meant that the communists would not be allowed to take over South Vietnam. We would destroy the communists in South Vietnam and contain them to NORTH Vietnam.
Canada is 9,985,000 km² and the Philippines are 300,000 km², so 33.28 times.
I don't think there would be communism in North+South Vietnam anymore...that was the cause of the war.
Part of the cold war; should America have participated in the cold war?
If someone said, "I was in Indochina", you would most likely reply, "what part?" Meaning Cambodia, or Laos, or South Vietnam, North Vietnam, etc. Vietnam is to Indochina as Texas is to America (or Texas is to the United States). Example: "What part of the US are you from?" Reply: "Texas"
Both parts of Vietnam were battle sites of the war.
Fear that the North Vietnamese would obtain nuclear weapons themselves (from Russia or China) and use them on South Vietnam or even on America.
Animals were kept inside to protect them from predators and the climate as it would be very cold in medieval times.
In America it would be any of the "Muscle" cars that GM, Ford, AMC and Mopar produced.
A stronger possibly of that, than the conventional methods employed by the WWII Generals.
The US would fit inside of Russia 1.74 times.