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Steve West | October 15, 2022
Interestingly enough, in Vietnam, locals refer to it as the American War.
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Scott Hardie | October 14, 2022
Why is the Vietnam War not called the Vietnamese War?
The U.S.A. fought in the Korean War, the Spanish-American War, the Mexican-American War, and so on.