YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Telling Stories about Vietnam
Essays 781 - 810
claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...
last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...
was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...
with the names of the more than 58,000 U.S. men and women who were killed or missing in the Vietnam War" (Vietnam Veterans Memoria...
was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...
whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...
one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...
between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...
spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...
rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...
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...
Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
it" (Zelnick, 2005). There was also some dissent at this time, but it didnt come from protestors, but from professional military p...
free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...
to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...
"just war" or a "war that had to be fought," given the aggression of both Germany and Japan, and the extermination of millions of ...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
states, in his Second Treatise of Government, Chapter XI, the following: "THE great end of mens entering into society, being the e...
soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...
In eleven pages this paper analyzes the 1979 film in terms of the way Coppola's Vietnam manifesto also represents the subconscious...
In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...
at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...
This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...
to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...
In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...
against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...
This paper discusses how the Vietnam War fighting and wartime atrocities represented Geneva Convention violations in eight pages. ...