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It's true, but part of it - as Lucas apparently drew inspiration from several places. But yes the vietnam war was one of the big ones. The us is the bad guys
Can you point out some examples of this? Some plot point in Star Wars and its real-world analogue? Because "plucky protagonists overthrow big bad evil government" is, at least today, on its own, a pretty generic stock plotline. If that alone is enough to claim that Star Wars = Vietnam War, you could easily (and perhaps even more validly) claim that it's actually the Xinhai Revolution or the Russian Revolution. Or the English Civil War. Or the Meiji Restoration. Or the French Resistance/Free French Forces. Or... (&c.)
To illustrate what kind of examples I'm talking about, you could say that the Galactic Senate voting emergency powers to Palpatine in the prequels is analogous to the Enabling Act and the Reichstag Fire Decree of Weimar Germany or the Roman Senate voting to appoint Julius Caesar as dictator for life.
The whole battle of Endor, where the technologically superior invaders were defeated by the underdogs in the forests using primitive traps & ambush techniques
Okay, that I can see. When people mention the original Star Wars I think of A New Hope (which isn't particularly Vietnam-y), not Return of the Jedi.