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The war in Korea began in a clear, unequivocal, incontrovertible way: on 25 June 1950 the North Koreans invaded South Korea.1 The war in Vietnam, on the other hand, did not have such a sharp-edged beginning. Instead there were the ambiguous Tonkin Gulf attacks of August 1964 and the subsequent, equally ambiguous, Tonkin Gulf Resolution.2
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Simmons, E. (1987). Korea to Kampuchea: the Changing Nature of Warfare in East Asia 1950–86: Part I. In: O’Neill, R. (eds) East Asia, the West and International Security. International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference Papers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09845-3_7
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