Vietnam war ripple effects

Vietnam war ripple effects

The impression that poor people, but highly motivated people could defeat the greatest world power using guerrilla warfare went very deep in most countries. The Black Hawk helicopters with two sets of blades and armor, and the definitive implementation of anti-shrapnel vests are due in part to experiences in Vietnam.

Similarly, very few governments supported by United States lost a guerrilla war. A dire consequence of that war was the lack of attention given to the Cambodian genocide by the West for being an underdeveloped village therefore, in the minds leftist, revolutionaries, they could not be bad or if it was, the information provided by organizations like Amnesty International were classified as false or manipulated by U.S. intelligence.

You could say that the U.S. military learned a great deal of actual experience in Vietnam. Although the country’s politicians were careful then not to fight alongside advisers of local forces in regions like Central America, the experience in Southeast Asia helped to train the forces of countries like El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, etc and be a cause to achieve stop-wing guerrilla movements in Central America.

Within the African continent of Ethiopia alone, they beat a Marxist revolution in 1977. The famous line and ineffective implementation McNamara was back in the Western Sahara to stop attacks by the Polisario Front which nearly completely defeated Morocco. These walls of separation between the Sahara desert and the rest use the same motion sensor technology, personal detectors and batteries after the physical barriers that were used in the DMZ.

After the Vietnam debacle various U.S. administrations tried to avoid direct involvement in any conflict, especially in America. Also, when these were carried out, the various governments reacted fairly quickly.

In the past decade, President Ronald Reagan withdrew its forces from Lebanon after the suicide bombing in Beirut. The widespread use of the helicopter in an asymmetric war proved correct, despite the final defeat. So much so that in later conflicts of the 80s and especially in the 21st century they have been used widely.

The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have proven to be the best method to fight a dispersed and highly mobile enemy in the so-called War on Terror. Thus most of the armies of the early twenty-first century tended to strengthen and diversify its fleet of helicopters against the showy, but less effective fighters and bombers.