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Aviation’s Impact Upon the U.S. Military and Economy During the Vietnam War

of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...

Dynamic Midwest Campus Against the Vietnam War

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

Vietnam

a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...

Why Did the United States Lose the Vietnam War?

could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...

Reaction to: “The Things They Carried”

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

Women and Protesting During the Vietnam War

to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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,...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Vietnam and the IMF

It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

The Civil War and President Lincoln

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

Two Questions on Doing Business in Vietnam and Perceptions About Products Made in Vietnam Answered

Vietnams cultural practices and showing a willingness to conform to them will go a long way toward improved business associations ...

Argumentative Essay Opposing the Iraq War

trillion.6 The severe economic effects of this war in terms of costs that include war zone operations, troop deployment, equipmen...

Is the War in Iraq Worth It?

"The war in Iraq has been the top issue each time Gallup has asked this question going back to April 2006" (Carroll, 2007). Howeve...

The Great Depression and the Policies of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt

consumer buying power (Barber, 1997). Businesses were growing at a much faster rate than wages. In hopes of supplementing their ...

Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

The Civil War and Minority People

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

Varying Justifications for World War II

The reasons nation enter into warfare are on the one hand diverse. On the other hand, however, they most often relate to one degr...

Tim O’Brien, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

Florence Nightingale's Work

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

Gulf War and Military Strategy

the United States, our interests, or our allies" (The Strategy). The National Security Objective - to promote peace and stability...

Overview of the Pearl Harbor Bombing

to the bombing, however, we note that in the words of one author, following WWI "Japan grew angry with the U.S.A. because they wer...

Doi Moi Renovation Policies of Vietnam

prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...