Are there parallels between Israel's assault on Gaza and the American assault on North Vietnam during the Vietnam War?

Both conflicts involved asymmetrical warfare, with a technologically superior force (Israel and the United States, respectively) facing off against a determined guerrilla force (Hamas in Gaza and the Viet Cong in Vietnam). Both conflicts also saw significant civilian casualties and infrastructure damage.

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trollslayer · 46-50, M

Well nobody in the USA wanted to settle on vietnam’s land or occupy it.

And the USA was not attacked by Vietnam.

And the USA does not border Vietnam or had a decades old conflict with Vietnam.

But both the VC and Hamas hide within civilians, and both the US and Israel committed war crimes.

flipper1966 · M

@trollslayer Vietnam was fundamentally a colonial war, or a continuation of the earlier French colonial war in Indochina. There are those who say that Israel is promoting colonial ambitions in Gaza. There were elements of anti-colonial struggle on the part of the Vietnamese people who fought against U.S. foreign intervention.