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Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now Analyzed

In eleven pages this paper analyzes the 1979 film in terms of the way Coppola's Vietnam manifesto also represents the subconscious...

Vietnamese Perspectives on the Vietnam War

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

Weapons and Their Costs and Damage to Human Life

at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...

Concept of Hero in Fatal Light by Richard Currey and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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

Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...

Argument Opposing the American Involvement in the Vietnam War

this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...

The Vietnam War and Counterinsurgency Tactics by the Americans

who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...

US Empire Crisis and the American Involvement in Vietnam

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

3rd Army Speech of Gen. George Patton Applied to Vietnam

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

Nationalist and Not Communist Sentiments Fueled the Vietnam War

Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...

Our War by David Harris

the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...

Cold War Ideological Separation of the United States and the Soviet Union

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

Into the Quagmire Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by Brian VanDeMark

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

Vietnam War and Individual Actions

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

Vietnam and a Possible Peaceful Settlement

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

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and its Historical Accuracy

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

Country of Vietnam, Apart from its War Presentation

elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...

United Nations Hight Commissioner for Refugees

consider how the organisation may learn form its experience the first stage is to consider the role and development of the United ...

Cinematic Comparison of Oliver Stone's Platoon and John Wayne's The Green Berets

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

The Unfinished War Vietnam in the American Conscience by Walter H. Capps Reviewed

national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

Theories on the Reasons Behind the Longevity of the Vietnam War

lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

Richard Nixon and 1960s' Counterculture

bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...

TV Series on the Vietnam War Tour of Duty

but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...

Vietnam Period Historical Themes in Ron Kovics' Autobiography Born On The Fourth Of July

home. Your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave" (Kovic PG). That Kovic was no different than any other red-...

Arnold Isaacs' Vietnam Shadows

Isaacs states that shadows haunt those who did fight in Vietnam because the stories that no one wanted to hear about their war con...

The Vietnam War and the Attitudes That Drove the Conflict

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

Immoral Actions and Henry Kissinger

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...