SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Why Did the United States Lose the Vietnam War

Essays 541 - 570

1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

Guerrilla Tactics and the Vietnam War

machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...

Book Review of Four Hours in My Lai by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim

who were interviewing members of Charlie Company. Simpson had taken part in the massacre at My Lai in March 1968; his subsequent l...

General William Westmoreland's Attrition Strategy During the Vietnam War

that followed (RCAH). While the United States was very much involved in the conflict, purportedly to keep peace in the world by ta...

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...

Antiwar Sentiments, Sociopolitical Thought, and the Vietnam War

7,000 men a month virtually indefinitely. Political cadres won support from, or at least neutralized, the Southern peasantry. Weak...

End of the Vietnam War

the U.S. Army off for two years with bows and arrows. (60) These lessons from history were largely ignored. American involvement...

Social Chaos and Confusion of Children of Vietnam War Veterans

story "Fathering," one such child is depicted. Eng was most likely-- although not even definitely-- the daughter of an American V...

Vietnam Veterans and Employment Opportunities

stayed and lived in the woods or changed their identities so they would not have to go home. Some returned drug addicts. Still oth...

US Foreign Policy and the Vietnam War

States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...

Failed Vietnam Policy of the US

all kinds of arms and munitions. In their relations with Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, each member of the Geneva Conference undertak...

America After Vietnam and Books by Gibson and Englehardt

In five pages this paper discusses Warrior Dreams by Gibson and The End of the Victory Culture by Englehardt in a consideration of...

Women's Role in the Vietnam War

In five pages this essay considers women's pivotal role in the Vietnam War and its impact. Four sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Unlearned Lessons from the Vietnam War

American involvement in Vietnam has had a long and complex history. The question of why the US was...

Solutions for California Prison Overcrowding

The War Against Drugs has had a number of effects in this country. One of the more apparent of those effects...

Vietnam War, The New York Times v. United States, and Striking a Balance Between National Security and the First Amendment

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...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

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

Vietnam

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...

Vietnam War and the Movie We Were Soldiers

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

Questions on the New Left, Liberalism, and Vietnam Answered

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

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Vietnam War 'Shot Down' the Great Society Envisioned by President Lyndon B. Johnson

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

The Vietnam War

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...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

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

Covert Operations vs. the Traditional Military

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

Students and the Law

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

Why States Fail

State capacity is a reflection of a states strengths and weaknesses. Very simply, state capacity can be defined as "the ability...

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...

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...

What Soldiers Experienced During the Vietnam War

end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...

United States' Intermediation Sectors

the process. The goals of intermediation are varied. Sometimes they involve specialization in production. For example, in the au...