If Lee Kuan Yew is to be believed, then, the U.S. intervention in Vietnam was
a
major factor is achieving the West's overall victory in the Cold War. It held
the line while freedom and prosperity were established in non-Communist Asia
— and that provided the rest of the world, including the evil empire itself,
with a "demonstration effect" of how freedom led to prosperity. ...


Chris Mark







I would agree. Viet Nam was but one battle in the Cold War.