Vietnam Battlefield

The most famous open military conflict during the Cold War. It started off and had its roots as the fight of the Vietnamese people against the French colonial interests, but was really a fight between communists and anti-communists. The conflict lasted almost 20 years and had taken a great toll, both on the military, civilian population and the relationships between different countries which were already strained in that era.

US Soldiers held up on a hill with supplies observing a distant battlefield and destruction.

The main characteristic, in my opinion, of the Vietnam war was the presence of cameras and war journalists. Such high presence of witnesses and press was eye opening to the public which eventually lead to protests and pressure build up to end the war and cease hostile activities. The Vietnam war and cult movies related to it (such as "Apocalypse Now" or "The Deer Hunter") had a lengthy and determined effect on the general public world wide, and that is that war is a very dreadful, bad, painful and miserable experience.