YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Unlearned Lessons from the Vietnam War
Essays 151 - 180
the U.S. Army off for two years with bows and arrows. (60) These lessons from history were largely ignored. American involvement...
bags of whatever soldiers werent forever-missing P.O.W.s. I have learned from the readings that the war, in retrospect, was a terr...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...
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...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...
together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...
which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...
the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...
ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...
to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...
and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...
President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...
This paper discusses how the Vietnam War fighting and wartime atrocities represented Geneva Convention violations in eight pages. ...
against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...
In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...
This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...
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...
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...
comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...