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whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...
between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...
Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...
to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...
early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...
United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...
with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...
was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...
seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...
San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...
to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...
This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...
solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...
of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...
as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...
Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...
This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...
story "Fathering," one such child is depicted. Eng was most likely-- although not even definitely-- the daughter of an American V...
stayed and lived in the woods or changed their identities so they would not have to go home. Some returned drug addicts. Still oth...
States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...
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...