The document discusses and compares the imperial responses to revolution in colonial America and Vietnam. In colonial America, the British sought to tax and exert control over loosely associated colonies seeking economic freedom, leading to revolution. In Vietnam, the French faced a revolution seeking freedom from colonial oppression. Both revolutions were civil wars fought on the revolutionaries' land and faced opposing arguments, though the causes of revolution differed. The document then examines the British response to the American revolution and the French and American responses to the Vietnamese revolution in greater detail.