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at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...
In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...
to set the record straight. There were stories coming out claiming how bad American troops were in Vietnam. This infuriated me. ...
against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...
the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...
readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...
two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
For support, he look towards what he called the "silent majority" believing that they were really supporting his foreign policies,...
soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...
Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...
Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...
used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...
both within the army and in the ethnic and other armed groups pitted against it" (Spaeth PG). "ASEAN and its dialogue part...
Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...
Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
and parcel of continuing education. In grade school, students learn about history and geography, but it is only when they grow up ...
end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...
have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...
supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...