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obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...

two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

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

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

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

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

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

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

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...

which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

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

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

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

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