Given that the South Vietnam land reform was almost completely subsidised and openly encouraged by the contemporary US administration that at the time sided with Diem, the general commentary on the Vietnam War is bound to have clear links to the agrarian reform era.
There has also been some revisionist scholars who even go to the lengths of arguing the US actually won in many levels, arguing that the American involvement in the Vietnam War saved Southeast Asia from becoming completely Communist - hence the containment strategy worked out through different means.