Essays 451 - 480
machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...
who were interviewing members of Charlie Company. Simpson had taken part in the massacre at My Lai in March 1968; his subsequent l...
States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...
In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...
7,000 men a month virtually indefinitely. Political cadres won support from, or at least neutralized, the Southern peasantry. Weak...
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...
do with war strategy-which was a total failure of U.S. leadership. In the end, the bombing campaigns served to decimate land and v...
that media during the 1960s and 1970s shifted toward "an oppositional relation to political authority" (68). Hallin uses as his ar...
In six pages this paper refers to Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America by Richard Slotkin in t...
In ten pages this paper considers the life of controversial author and feminist Mary McCarthy in a discussion of Vietnam War, sexu...
In six pages this research paper examines Dan Rather's journalistic memoir that describes his coverage of such events as President...
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...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...
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...
Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...
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 discusses the legacy of the Vietnam War in an analysis of the importance of Saigon's fall. Three sources...
In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...
to set the record straight. There were stories coming out claiming how bad American troops were in Vietnam. This infuriated me. ...
This paper discusses how the Vietnam War fighting and wartime atrocities represented Geneva Convention violations in eight pages. ...
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 eight pages this paper presents an historian's opinions regarding pacification regarding the involvement in the Vietnam War. F...
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...
A 5 page overview the fictional tale of the Vietnam War by James Webb. The young protaganist is a Marine hero. 1 source....
bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...
but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...