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earth. It was this antagonistic attitude that only served to fuel Ho Chi Minhs desire to ward off foreign domination and American...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

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...

It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

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...