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Essays 271 - 300
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...
have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...
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...
eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...
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...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
"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...
actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...
comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...
up in court. This paper considers two cases in which students are involved. Discussion The first case is Safford Unified School D...
Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...
Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...
war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...
could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...
In ten pages this paper discusses how the sabotaging of the military by American politics is partly to blame in the US loss of the...
In five pages the Howitzer's role in contemporary warfare dating back to the Vietnam War is examined in an evolution that includes...
fierce protection of ancestral land was nothing new to the people trapped in between warring factions. The names given geographic...
In five pages this paper discusses the legacy of the Vietnam War in an analysis of the importance of Saigon's fall. Three sources...
In eight pages this paper presents an historian's opinions regarding pacification regarding the involvement in the Vietnam War. F...
defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...
Introduction The Vietnam War was a very chaotic time. Many argue that the war was never a war that could have been won by the Uni...