YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Films on the Vietnam War and the War Itself
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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 ...
under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...
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...
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...
American involvement in Vietnam has had a long and complex history. The question of why the US was...
Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...
Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...
could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...
war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...
which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...
the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...
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...
have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...
ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
U.S. Army as well as civilian agencies support the South Vietnamese (1998). His analysis is intricate and political, suggesting th...
to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...
and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...
President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...
two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....
end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
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...
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...
Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...