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have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...

the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...

original American colonies. In that case a federal system would undoubtedly be best and should be patterned after United States,...

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...

a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...

to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...

President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...

U.S. Army as well as civilian agencies support the South Vietnamese (1998). His analysis is intricate and political, suggesting th...

see that even within the scope of one war the geography and the type of battles that are faced are of incredible importance. Imag...

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

This was a misplaced fear. Communism would fall on its own, and even if it did not, the idea that it would spread like a disease i...

serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...

Britain (2001). Those were the key players in the war. It was a treaty that was based on an agreement made by the "Allied Nations"...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Not all of the technological developments we have witnessed in war have been positive from a medical standpoint. While in the ear...

the two powers for years to come (Elbaum, 2004). In April, Peng Zhen was purged and in the months coming, Mao and the PLA took s...

God, and the nation represented. Linderman tells the story of this unique group of men in an understandable order from ant...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

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

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

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...

found herself trying to heal German boys that her brother and his friends would later try to kill (Brittain). The idea of patching...

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

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...

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...