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against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...

In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...

This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...

Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...

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...

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

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...

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...

last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...

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...

up in court. This paper considers two cases in which students are involved. Discussion The first case is Safford Unified School D...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...

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...

under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...

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

Or, in more general terms, how could the violence been ended in Vietnam? To speculate on how the violence could have ended or to...

They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...

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

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

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 ...

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

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...