YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Unlearned Lessons from the Vietnam War
Essays 241 - 270
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...
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...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...
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...
In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...
The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...
alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...
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...
and their determination, along with European allies, to protect other Asian nations from communism. In 1950 we see the following a...
well to take a broad perspective not only on the countrys recent economic development but also the constraints which might affect ...
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...
in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...
Vietnams cultural practices and showing a willingness to conform to them will go a long way toward improved business associations ...
It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...
about under doi moi. On the...
prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...
earth. It was this antagonistic attitude that only served to fuel Ho Chi Minhs desire to ward off foreign domination and American...
Infrastructure and its importance are discussed in an overview of Vietnam's economic history in seven pages. Eight sources are ci...
The rising nationalism in Korea and Vietnam is the focus of the comparative analysis consisting of five pages in which its similar...
In five pages this paper examines slave art and music during the years of the Civil War along with a consideration of family durin...
also important in understanding a citys development, for example which lands were traditionally used for the production of food, w...
confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...
potential harm that may be suffered by those not directly involved must also be considered when planning action (HRW, 2002). Th...
combat, drastic measures were required to try and drive the Vietnamese out of their strongholds in the countryside. A policy of ma...
forestry. Much is the same really in both areas. Yet, there are decidedly more problems in Vietnam. While problems do admittedly e...