Natural rubber from the numerous rubber trees in Vietnam certainly may have been a factor in the French Indochina War (also called the 1st Indochina War) 1946-1954. But it had nothing to do with the American Vietnam War (1955-1975).
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The Vietnam conflict was a type of proxy war, in that our Cold War foe, Russia, heavily subsidized Communist North Vietnam in their fight with U.S. forces.
The next big war after the Korean War was the Vietnam War.
South Vietnam had many rubber tree plantations. They looked like part of a regular forest (jungle) but upon traversing thru them, you could see that they were finely planted in neat rows.
During the Vietnam War, Tennessee sacrificed (lost) 1,291 men to the cause.
The Tet Offensive .