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This is a list of wars involving Vietnam.

Democratic Republic of Vietnam

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Conflict Vietnam and allies Opponents Result President
August Revolution
(1945)
Occupation of the Tonkin Palace, Hanoi, on 19 August 1945
 Vietnam Việt Minh  Empire of Japan Vietnam Victory Hồ Chí Minh
Chinese troops enter Vietnam
(1945) 		Vietnam Việt Minh Taiwan China Vietnam Victory
  • Chiang Kai-shek's army withdrew.
  • Vietnam Nationalist Party and Vietnam Revolutionary Allied Society withdrew from the United Government
Operation Masterdom
(1945–1946)
Free French Commandos in Saigon being welcome by Japanese Surrendered Personnel in November 1945
 Vietnam Việt Minh  United Kingdom

France

 Japan

Vietnam Victory
First Indochina War
(1946–1954)
Viet Minh troops plant their flag over the captured French headquarters at Dien Bien Phu (still from Sovietfilmographer Roman Karmen). Vietnam Victory in the Battle of Ðiện Biên Phủ
 Vietnam Vietnam France

 Burma
Philippines
 Thailand
 United States[1]

Vietnam Victory
Vietnam War
(1955–1975)
U.S. Army Bell UH-1D helicopters airlift members of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment from the Filhol Rubber Plantation area to a new staging area, during Operation "Wahiawa", a search and destroy mission conducted by the 25th Infantry Division, northeast of Cu Chi, South Vietnam, 1966.
  North Vietnam  South Vietnam
 United States
 South Korea
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Thailand
Philippines
Kingdom of Laos
Cambodia Khmer Republic
Other Participation[2]
 Vietnam Victory
North Vietnamese invasion of Laos[3]
(1958–1959)
The Ho Chi Minh trail from the very beginning was using Vietnamese and Laotian people as seen in a captured Viet Cong's photo, circa 1959
 Vietnam North Vietnam
Laos Pathet Lao 		Kingdom of Laos Vietnam Victory
Laotian Civil War
(1959–1975)
Anti-aircraft troops of the Laotian Peoples Liberation Army.
  North Vietnam
Laos Pathet Lao 		Kingdom of Laos
 South Vietnam
 United States
 South Korea
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Thailand
Philippines
Cambodia Khmer Republic 		Vietnam Victory
Cambodian Civil War
(1967–1975)
U.S. tanks entering a town in Cambodia in 1970.
  North Vietnam
Cambodia Khmer Rouge 		Cambodia Khmer Republic
Kingdom of Laos
 South Vietnam
 United States
 South Korea 		Vietnam Victory

Socialist Republic of Vietnam

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Conflict Vietnam and allies Opponents Result President
FULRO insurgency
(1964–1992) 		 Vietnam FULRO

 China
 United States[4]Libya Libya
(1970–1987)
 France

Vietnam Victory Tôn Đức Thắng
Insurgency in Laos
(1975–2021)[5] 		 Vietnam
 Laos 		Hmong insurgents
 Thailand
 United States
 China (until 1988)[6] 		Vietnam Victory
  • 2007 Hmong-led coup attempt against the Lao government foiled; alleged plotters tried and exonerated in the U.S.
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
(1978–1989)
Rooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. Million of Innocent Cambodian were killed by Khmer Rouge
  Vietnam Cambodia Khmer Rouge
 China
 Malaysia[7]
 North Korea
 Romania[8][9][10]
 Singapore[7]
 Thailand
 United Kingdom[11][12]
 United States[13][14]
 United Nations 		Vietnam Victory
Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
(1979–1989) 		 Vietnam  Thailand
Cambodia Khmer Rouge
ASEAN[15]

 China

Vietnam Victory
Sino-Vietnamese War
(1979) 		 Vietnam  China Vietnam Victory
  • Continued Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia until 1989
  • Vietnamese authorities continue and increase their expulsions of overseas Chinese from Vietnam
  • Continuation of border clashes between China and Vietnam until 1991
  • Vietnam success in to prevent Chinese troops from entering Hanoi
Sino-Vietnamese conflicts
(1979–1991) 		 Vietnam  China Vietnam Victory
  • The conflict subsided without the outbreak of full-scale war
  • Normalization of relations between China and Vietnam in 1991
Thai–Laotian Border War
(1987–1988) 		 Vietnam
 Laos 		 Thailand Vietnam Victory Võ Chí Công
Russian in the Bạch Long Vĩ Island Conflict
(1992) 		 Vietnam  Russia Vietnam Victory
  • Russian escape the Bạch Long Vĩ Island

References

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  1. ↑ France honors CIA pilots
  2. ↑ Friedman, Herbert. "Allies of the Republic of Vietnam". psywarrior.com. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ Dommen, Arthur J. (1995). "North Vietnamese Invasion". In Savada, Andrea Matles (ed.). Laos: a country study (3rd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 42–44. ISBN 978-0-8444-0832-3. OCLC 32394600.
  4. ↑ Written by BBT Champaka.info (8 September 2013). "Tiểu sử Ts. Po Dharma, tác giả Lịch Sử 33 Năm Cuối Cùng Champa". Champaka.info. Champaka.info. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  5. ↑ "Clash Between Lao Troops and Armed Group Leaves One Dead in Xaysomboun". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  6. ↑ O'Dowd, Edward C. (16 April 2007). Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War: The Last Maoist War. Routledge. pp. 186–. ISBN 978-1-134-12268-4. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Richardson, Michael. "Singaporean Tells of Khmer Rouge Aid". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  8. ↑ Shafir, Michael (1985). Romania: Politics, Economics and Society : Political Stagnation and Simulated Change. Pinter. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-86187-438-5.
  9. ↑ Anderson, Desaix (2002). An American in Hanoi: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam. EastBridge. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-891936-03-6.
  10. ↑ Frost, Gerald (1991). Europe in Turmoil: The Struggle for Pluralism. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-275-94129-1.
  11. ↑ "How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a hand". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  12. ↑ "Butcher of Cambodia set to expose Thatcher's role". The Guardian. 9 January 2000. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  13. ↑ Becker, Elizabeth (1998-04-17). "Death of Pol Pot: The Diplomacy; Pol Pot's End Won't Stop U.S. Pursuit of His Circle". The New York Times. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
  14. ↑ Parkinson, Charles; Cuddy, Alice; Pye, Daniel (May 29, 2015). "The Pol Pot dilemma". The Phnom Penh Post. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
  15. ↑ Cima, Ronald J. (1989). "Foreign relations: Thailand". In Cima, Ronald J. (ed.). Vietnam: a country study. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 231. OCLC 40294997.
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