Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War began in 1962 when a team of thirty military instructors were sent to South Vietnam. It was the beginning of Australia’s longest involvement ever in a war. However, Australia should not have become involved in the Vietnam War for several reasons: our involvement was an unnecessary interference in a civil war, the motives behind our involvement were selfish and unjust, and finally, we should not have become involved in Vietnam because the war’s devastating impact on Australian servicemen far outweighed any political gain.
To begin with, Australia should not have become involved in the Vietnam War because it was not our place to do so. The Vietnam War was, in essence, a civil war. Following the French withdrawal in 1954, Vietnam was divided into two countries – North Vietnam with a communist government and South Vietnam with a government supported by the United States of America. ... However, the elections to reunite Vietnam were never held. The leader of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was opposed to the elections, claiming that free elections would not be possible in the communist-controlled north. Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam, known as the ‘Vietcong’, began to attack the Diem government. This was the beginning of what should have remained a civil war. However, several western nations overlooked the initial reasons and literal circumstances of the war, and perceived it metaphorically as a struggle between communism and freedom. Australia should not have become involved in a war that did not affect it or threaten national security directly.
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