There is no analogy with Vietnam. Americans didn't push american settlers into the jungles of Vietnam in front of them.
Vietnam is however a great example of the old strategy failing, because like I said, soldiers will eventually want to go home instead of losing men while trying to control or controlling a hostile population.
The new strategy for colonialist expansion is the Israeli model. Civilians are convinced that they are pioneers for a higher cause (Zionism or Hindutva). They will have a much higher threshold for being forced out as this is their new home, and as well as economic, they have idealistic reasons to stay. Once established, soldiers will form guarded communities for them and the soldiers' desire to fight to protect grateful civilians will be higher than if those civilians weren't there.
So yes, this is a Palestinian scenario, not USA in Vietnam or USSR in afg.