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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...

realist notions concerning what the term "state" means, as "State identities and interests can be collectively transformed within ...

truly began to develop the powerfully negative attitudes about foreigners and anyone who was not of the Islamic people. He encoura...

between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

well to take a broad perspective not only on the countrys recent economic development but also the constraints which might affect ...

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

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...

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

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

of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...

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...

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...

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...

could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

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

Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...