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Politics Sabotaged the US Military in the Vietnam War

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...

Pacification and the Vietnam War

In eight pages this paper presents an historian's opinions regarding pacification regarding the involvement in the Vietnam War. F...

Saigon's Fall and its Importance

In five pages this paper discusses the legacy of the Vietnam War in an analysis of the importance of Saigon's fall. Three sources...

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

Vietnam through a Cold War Lens

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

United States’ Involvement in the Vietnam War

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

David Halberstam/The Best and the Brightest

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

Book Report on Thomas Sanchez’s Mile Zero

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

The Land Problem and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

assistance from the government. Another problem involving the land was the fact that aristocrats were buying up large tracts and ...

Civil Disobedience in the 1960s

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

The Vietnam War: The Problem with Escalation

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Draft

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Social Movements of the 1960s and Their Impact

In four pages this essay examines how the 1960s social movements had a predominantly positive impact upon attitudes regarding wome...

Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Civil Rights

In three pages this essay examines what may have been in terms of civil rights and the Vietnam War had JFK lived and also discusse...

1960s' Political and Social Movements and the Chicago Seven Trial

In seven pages this paper discusses the counterculture, Vietnam War protest, and student movements of the 1960s with the emphasis ...

1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

US Foreign Policy and the Vietnam War

States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...

Bombing Policy of the United States During the Vietnam War

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...

Documentary Film on the Impact of the Tet Offensive on the Vietnam War

In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...

Antiwar Sentiments, Sociopolitical Thought, and the Vietnam War

7,000 men a month virtually indefinitely. Political cadres won support from, or at least neutralized, the Southern peasantry. Weak...

End of the Vietnam War

the U.S. Army off for two years with bows and arrows. (60) These lessons from history were largely ignored. American involvement...

Reality of the 'Unwinnable' Vietnam War

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...

Women's Role in the Vietnam War

In five pages this essay considers women's pivotal role in the Vietnam War and its impact. Four sources are cited in the bibliogr...

The Cold War Years of 1945 to 1963 on the American Homefront

In a paper consisting of five pages the effects of the Cold War in America are considered and include the atomic bombing of Hirosh...

Guerrilla Tactics and the Vietnam War

machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...