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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...

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

U.S. Army as well as civilian agencies support the South Vietnamese (1998). His analysis is intricate and political, suggesting th...

and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...

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

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...

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

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

exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...

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 ...

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...