What are the differences between the weapons of the Vietnam War and the Iraq War (or War in Iraq)?
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The Vietcong and Insurgents both used massive guerilla warfare.\n\nI'd say way more IEDs in the iraq war.\n\nthe vietnameese beat us with technology [SAMS, ak-47, etc]\nand knowledge of the land.\n\nThe insurgents are just using household products.
509519
The Korean Conflict back in the '50s was not OFFICIALLY called a war. It was called a "police action", like we were handing out PARKING TICKETS? If you really want to know whats up in Iraq....talk to a SOLDIER that just came back. THOSE are the only guys whos word counts for ANYTHING anymore.
987850
Killing in Iraq will end about the same time killings in the rest of the world will end - when God wipes evil from the earth.\n\nAs for Vietnam, yes some of us remember the lessons learned there.  That's why we're not leaving until the job is finished this time.  We will gradually pull out as the new government in Iraq gradually learns to stand on it's own figurative two feet.
553881
It was the Vietnam War.  Millions of gallons were used.  A whole lot.  Look it up on Wikipedia or do a google search.
859919
As an American living in Vietnam see this war is a tragic mistake, we are mired down in a quagmire, much worse than in the Vietnam War. You should see the poor people here with legs and arms missing begging on the street. Total Vietnamese killed about 300,000 no idea how many wounded. Our brave shoulders 55,000 and how many wounded. In Iraq they estimate 650,000 dead. For our brave 2,200 plus young boys that have died for a lost cause, hope Bush and his cronies sleep well.  America has a civil war going,  feel It's time the leadership of this country admit to their blunder, and lets go home.
544820
The primary mistake is the independant involvement of the media.  Vietnam was the first war that allowed "free reign" of the media, and the media's job is to sell it's copy.  So the real mistake made since Vietnam is allowing a reporter to see a small part of an operation, take it out of context of the whole, and twist it into something horrific to sell papers.
640689
Hate to tell you Navy Officer, there were no insurgents in Iraq bedore we got there.\n\nAnd your pious attitude about the death of American Soldiers for illigeyimate reasons is sickening. Pick up a rifle my man and jump on a land mine.\n\nAnd your Vietnam statements are even worse. I didn't see you there! Nixon Withdrew the troops.\n\nSource:\n15th Field Artillery Regiment\nWWI WW2 Korea Vietnam\nPanama Bosnia Iraq\nVietnam War Timeline\n"An individual's political beliefs depend on when\nhe became politically aware."\nAUTHOR UNKNOWN\n\n1970 - War Powers - By the time Congress learned that the naval incident leading to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) had been misrepresented and moved to repeal the resolution in 1970, President Nixon had already shifted to another legal rationale -- his constitutional powers as "Commander in Chief" -- for his Vietnam policies. In its 1969 "national commitments" resolution, the Senate made a bid to reassert a congressional voice in decisions committing the US to the defense of foreign countries. The House passed war-powers measures in 1970, 1971 and 1972.\n27 Jan 73 - Official end of the Vietnam War.   Between 27 Jan and 29 Mar 73, a total of 587 military and civilian prisoners were released by the North Vietnamese, and during that same period, 23,500 US troops were withdrawn from South Vietnam\n29 Mar 73 - 67 more US P.O.W.'s were freed in Hanoi. The same day, the US withdrew its remaining 2,500 troops from South Vietnam. This date also marked the actual end of military involvement in Vietnam.\n10 May 73 - Due to continued bombing of Laos and Cambodia, the House voted (219-188) for the first time to cut-off Indochina funds\n31 May 73 - The Senate took strong action prohibiting the use of any funds appropriated by Congress to be used for combat activities in Laos or Cambodia\n7 Nov 73 - War Powers Act - Congress dealt President Nixon a stunning setback when it voted to override his veto of legislation limiting presidential powers to commit US forces abroad without congressional approval.   Congress, with the Vietnam War and the showdown over continued bombing in Cambodia behind it, was anxious to reassert its role in the conduct of the country's foreign affairs"\n\nYou have no idea of the total mess we have made in Iraq and in the world community.
1000150
Gee i seem to understand that America had a few problems ourselves after the revolution.  I mean like a previous answerer stated Germany and Japan were not fixed overnight.  The biggest difference between Iraq and Vietnam is that in Vietnam the Democrats would not let the military fight to win, but were more interested in making money on our dead 58,000 American soldiers than doing what needed to be done to help democracy succeed, but now the Republicans, much to the anger of the liberals, have turned the conflict over to the military so that they can do what they need to in order to win.  In wartime someone always makes money, but something you need to keep in mind is that most of the major conflicts America has been involved in the Democrats have squarely planted us in them.  You are so concerned with getting us out of Iraq, and so worried about the soldiers dying there, because Bush got us there, but you have said nothing about the American, and allied troops that still get into firefights in Bosnia!!!  Clinton put us there 11 years ago, and we still rotate troops there, but no says anything about Clinton's screwup!!  If you are going to ask these kind of questions, then at least have the balls, and intestinal fortitude to ask about ALL the places AMERICAN troops are dying in!!!!!
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The standard issue rifle of the US is the M16 variants, it has been the standard rifle since the Vietnam War. Other weapons were also used such as the M249 rifle, for light machine guns.  And the Vietnamese use mainly the Avtomat Kalashnikov line, such as the Ak-47, a mainly used rifle, and the RPK, which is an Ak variant as a light machine gun.
42076
Basically, it was a failure (like today's war in Iraq) and many American soldiers' lives were lost.\n\nThe Vietnam War or Second Indochina War 1 was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or "Viet Cong") against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies — notably the United States military in support of the South, with US combat troops involved from shortly after the Korean War until the official withdrawal in 1975.\n\nAfter France's attempted recolonization of Indochina was defeated in 1954 by the Viet Minh at the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, an agreement to temporarily partition the country in two with a de-militarized zone (DMZ) was reached at the Geneva Conference (1954). The "Vietnam War" ostensibly began as a civil war between feuding governments. Being Western-oriented and far less popular than Hồ Chí Minh's northern rebellion, the South Vietnam government fought largely to maintain its governing status within the partitioned entity, rather than to "unify the country" as was the goal of the North. Fighting began in 1957 and with U.S. and Soviet-Chinese involvement would steadily escalate and spill over into the neighboring Indochinese countries of Cambodia and Laos.\n\nThe Geneva partition was not a natural division of Vietnam and was not intended to create two separate countries. But the South government, with the support of the United States, blocked the Geneva scheduled elections for reunification. In the context of the Cold War, and with the recent Korean War as a precedent, the U.S. had feared that a reunified Vietnam would elect a Communist government under the popular Hồ Chí Minh. South Vietnam and its Western allies portrayed the conflict as based in a principled opposition to communism —to deter the expansion of Soviet-based control throughout Southeast Asia, and to set the tone for any likely future superpower conflicts. The North Vietnamese government and its Southern dissident allies (NLF) viewed the war as a struggle to reunite the country and to repel a foreign aggressor —a virtual continuation of the earlier war for independence against the French.\n\nAfter fifteen years of protracted fighting and massive civilian and military casualties, major direct U.S. involvement ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. Fighting between Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces against the dominant combined People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and NLF forces would soon bring an end to the RVN and the war. With the Northern victory, the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) with a communist-controlled government based in the new capital Hanoi.\n\nThis is just a brief summary. For more information on the Vietnam War, go to:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
359111
Which war ? Vietnam has been at war for one thousnad years .\n" Every generation of men, they grew up knowing they were going to be in a war. The country had a 1,000-year history of warfare — with the Chinese, with the Japanese during World War II, with the French. — You accepted that as a way of life."\n\n" America inherited from the Europeans a world replete with dictators\nEven Vietnam was nothing more than a nasty inheritance from the French "
889204
You should not speak of things you know not of.\n\nVietnam was divided into two countries before and during the war.  North Vietnam was the aggressor in the Vietnam war.  The NVA, North Vietnamese Army, and the VCs, the Viet Cong, killed more innocent people than what is stated in your specious comment.\n\nPlus, your figure includes the 600,000 NVA killed in legitimate combat and the estimated VC casualties also legitimate combat kills.\n\nGet your facts straight before you make such comments.\n\nFurthermore, your statement insults the brave men that were in the US Armed Forces during the war!
866534
Let me see...Viet Cong blending into villages and disappearing into tunnel systems...Insurgents blending into villages and having underground caches of munitions...Is there any difference?\n\nOur brave soldiers out patrolling crowds where the insurgents look just like the citizens...that sounds awfully familiar.\n\nBush and Rumsfeld have really mucked this one up.  Then, consider the cost of prosecuting this bungled mess.  The deficit is rising and Bush stubbornly insists on maintaining tax cuts.  The next Prez is going to have to raise taxes to pay it off and be branded the one who "lost the war".  \n\nIn case noone remembers, Eisenhower was the first to send troops into Nam.
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"The use of air power in the Vietnam War would change the way wars were fought for the Twentieth century and beyond. New technological advances and more sophisticated weapons made the Vietnam War a testing ground for the U.S. military. New tactics and approaches were used and to varying degrees of success. Air power would be used as a bargaining tool and as punishment for North Vietnamese acts of aggression. Vietnam also introduced the attack helicopter as a vital weapon and it dawned a new age of tactics for the U.S. military. Starting with the training and advising of the South Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF), and culminating with the Christmas bombing of 1972, the U.S. would be involved in the skies over Vietnam for over 15 years"\ndon't forget agent orange either.  I'm pretty sure that was the first time it was used as it was.
537800
Yes, I would say for the US Vietnam was. For the world I would say Japan had it pretty rough when we droped two nukes on two huge citys.
1066850
Exactly...this is another Vietnam...it might not be the same scale casualty wise (at least American casulaties. Iraqi deaths are right up there). It's ridiculous. We never should have been there. I don't think it's the military's fault that there isn't progress...I'm sure they're doing what they can but there is only so much you can do before you realize that things aren't going to get any better. Insurgents are nasty and they'll stop at nothing to kill someone. This war is going to be going on for a long time unless something changes and unfortunately we have to wait a couple more years before those changes can begin. We destroyed a country now we're going to have to pay for it ....probably for the rest of our lives. It's a sad situation with no real end. You still have people out there saying that it was good that we went in...we got Saddam...we didn't go in to get Saddam. We went in to get weapons and the only ones we've found are the ones we sold them years ago to fight Iran. Interesting how that works out isn't it?
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/vm.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam\n\nTry these..Hope it helps..