Introduction The Cold War military conflicts in Asia were significantly marked by the active involvement of foreign parties, specifically the USA. A long history of Britain’s, France’s, and the US’s actions in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shows how these empires pursued their economic and political influence in the East to expand their dominance. As the southern and northern lands of Korea, as well as Vietnam, were separated due to the influence of foreign landlords and communists, the populations of these countries were exposed to wars. The USA claimed its purpose in both wars to be the support of democracy in the East. However, the true reason for its active involvement in the Korean and Vietnamese civil wars was to preserve inequality and hierarchal organization of society on these territories to expand its capitalistic rule. In this paper, the readings by two authors, Cumings and Neale, will be used to draw on the similarities between the US’s actions in the Korean War and Vietnam. The discussion is organized to argue that the military actions of America were motivated not by its fighting for democracy in Asia but to impose its capitalistic rule. US’s Actions in Korea and Vietnam During the Conflicts With the intensification of the Cold War in the 1950-s, the chase for dominance between the Communist countries and the US was manifested by the invasion of the empires into the domestic affairs of Vietnam and Korea. Although the United States’ authorities claimed that their intentions were guided by pursuing democracy, the actions the US army made in Asia demonstrate the opposite. As the readings of both Cumings and Neale show, the US forces were experimenting with some outrageous means of destruction of cities as a way to suppress the civil fights of the locals for their countries. In an attempt to threaten North Korean civilians and diminish their resistance to landlords, the US exploited experimental techniques of destruction. Since targeted bombing was not sufficiently destructive, deliberate burning of whole cities with the help of napalm and the disproportionate bombing of civilian territories was actively practiced (Cumings, pp. 150-151). At the same time, the publically reported actions portrayed American soldiers targeting separate bombs on the enemies. Similarly, the same means of destruction were used in Vietnam. As Neale states, “the planes dropped over 8 million tons of explosives” on the cities of Vietnam, which caused devastating lives losses (p. 75). When comparing the deaths on the two sides, 58,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed (Neale, p. 75). However, the losses are much more significant if one counts the deaths of civilians. The air war that was extensively utilized by the US forces to destroy the lands was marked by inhumane cruelty. The means in possession of the American army significantly outweighed those of the locals, thus leaving them without a chance to respond equally. In such a manner, the US’s actions in Korea and Vietnam followed the same pattern and were aimed at suppressing the civilians to force the capitalistic rule over Asia. The motivation for active inclusion in the civil war was similar to the US’s actions in Korea and Vietna