Iraq War Comparison

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Summary

Compares the Iraq War and Vietnam War during different stages of the conflict - a future article on

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About

This entry will be published on Spero News. Essentially, I'm placing all my notes here and letting anyone add to it. -- Astralis Lux

What you can do

• Answer any of the questions
• Provide more questions that should be added
• Strike questions that may be irrelevant
• Edit
• Anything you want to do to help

The Matrix

The following are a list of questions that I'm formulating while I determine what is important to determine a proper comparison. A statistician will review the final matrix and analyze it for Spero News.

Questions

Q1

How long were Americans complacent about the events in Vietnam before the protests had impact? Was there a single event that triggered anti-war activists to protest?

What year did the Vietnam War break out?

What year did the Iraq War break out?

When did the Vietnam War protests gather steam?

When did the Iraq War protests gather steam?

Q2

Hypothesising that the youth movement was triggered by many causes, one of which was that draftees were young and couldn't vote until they were 21.

Vietnam War conscription vs regular

Iraq War conscription vs regular

Percentage of youth vote in presidential elections during the protests:

1. Vietnam (this will depend on when the protests and youth movement started having impact, perhaps).

2. Iraq (there's only one election but it would be interesting to see if the voting percentage for the age group are similar during the first years of the Vietnam conflict).

Must configure for the 18-21 vote and when the vote was extended to this age group.

Were the number of deaths relevant to the anxiety which eventually turned into active protest against the war?

Vietnam War deaths per year

Iraq War deaths per year

Was there active support of the Vietnam conflict? If so, which demographics actively supported it? Do the same for Iraq War, both over a period of time.

What external factors are recognized for linking the social revolution to the Vietnam war? How related are they? Was the Vietnam War a scapegoat for social change?

Can this also happen today with the Iraqi war? Do similar factors exist? One factor I can think of would be globalism.

Percentage of youth support of Vietnam War over a period of time?

Percentage of youth support of Iraq War over a period of time?

Number of songs with peace as the theme in Vietnam War throughout the conflict?

Number of songs with peace as the theme in Iraq War throughout the conflict?

Number of patriotic songs on Vietnam War throughout the conflict?

Number of patriotic songs on Iraq War throughout the conflict?

Might be interesting to see if Live8 gathers any steam as part of the anti-globalist movement which first exhibited itself at the WTO protest in Seattle. This could be the impetus the youth need to take action against globalism and then tie-on the Iraq War - the same demographics who are anti-globalists also do not support the war.

Similar presidential strategies?

Vietnam War

Iraq War

List the weapons problems in Vietnam War

List the weapons problems in Iraq War

Congressional Support

Requests for money

Vietnam War

Iraq War

Resolutions

Pro

Vietnam War

Iraq War

Against:

Vietnam War

Iraq War

Discuss

Building an Iraq/Vietnam War Comparison