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Vietnam War's Tet Offensive and Press Coverage

The New York Times coverage of the Tet Offensive in articles from January 31 to February 7, 1968 is analyzed in seven pages. Nin...

Documentary Film on the Impact of the Tet Offensive on the Vietnam War

In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...

Vietnam War and the Critical Turning Point Represented by the Tet Offensive

to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...

Seizure of the City of Hue and the Tet Offensive

President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...

Warfare Turning Point, The Tet Offensive

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

Do Not Underestimate the Opposition: The Lasting Lesson of the Tet Offensive

shifting in the direction of the Communists. However, the brutal reality revealed during the intense fighting of the Tet Offensiv...

Overview of 1968's Tet Offensive

In six pages this paper examines the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in a consideration of the Tet Offensive that occurred in ...

Tobias Wolff's The End of Illusion In Pharaoh's Army

In five pages the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive is the focus of this overview of the memoir by Tobias Wolff. One source is cited in...

Media and the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

A Vietnam War Overview

supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...

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...

Vietnam and American Politics During the Turning Point of 1968

achieved (McDougall, 1996). That goal was and is to establish a strong buffer state to protect the nations of Southeast Asia from ...

Review and Summary of Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller's Charlie Company (What Vietnam Did to Us)

In five pages this 1983 memoir on soldiers' Vietnam War experiences is summarized, reviewed, and critiqued....

Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War

Caputo's Vietnam War memoir is reviewed in a paper consisting of two and a half pages....

1960s' America

In this paper that is comprised of brief essays the America of the 1960s is explored through such references as Martin Luther Kin...

Harry Summers' Comprehension of Clausewitz

destroying the enemys forces, we must emphasize that nothing obliges us to limit this idea to physical forces: the moral element m...

Vietnam Oral Narratives

Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In...

Vietnam, America’s Lost War

United States had not invested the situation in Vietnam with rivalry with Communist powers, the tragedy might have been avoided. B...

"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

Philip Caputo’s Policy Paper to Richard Nixon’s 1968 Presidential Campaign on Vietnam

The following represents what Caputos policy paper to the Nixon campaign about the conduct of the conflict might have looked like....

America's Longest War Critiqued

and instead of taking the lead, Presidents were being relegated to the role of follower. Policymakers envisioned themselves as th...

Logical Vietnam Argument Perspectives

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

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"...

Vietnam Explored in Argumentative, Narrative, and Expository Writing

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

Tone Setting Early 20th Century Conflicts

Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...

Comparing the Gulf War and Vietnam

2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...

America's Wars

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

Vietnam War and the Policies of President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

For support, he look towards what he called the "silent majority" believing that they were really supporting his foreign policies,...

The Korean War and The Cold War

first and second worlds, or the free world and the communist bloc. Many equated the U.S. as a major force of the first world and...

The Vietnam Wars

The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...