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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....

The Cold War: Causes, Treaties, and Ongoing Tensions

be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...

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...

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...

Cold War's 'End' Political Essay

In two pages this paper argues that despite its reputed end the Cold War endures in the hearts and minds of those who survived tha...

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"...

Politics of the Cold War

textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...

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...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

Comparing the Second World War and the Cold War

the masses; and the inspiration by some other outside cause. With respect to one whose actions instigated World War II, all of th...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Stoessinger on Vietnam

(Kissinger 684). Rather than commit virtual genocide and lose the "soul of the United States," Johnson was finally forced to withd...

Canada and the Cold War

neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...

A Comparison Between the Cold War and the Long War

the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...

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...

Post 1945 Russian and Eastern European Security Affairs

In five pages this paper discusses the measures these regions took with regards to security following the Second World War until t...

Ambiguities Throughout the History of Politics

In six pages this paper discusses the political ambiguities represented by the Second World War, the Cold War's rise and fall, and...

A Personal View of The End of Victory Culture

In this five page paper the writer explores the book by Tom Engelhardt from a personal perspective. Insight is provided as to how...

Ho Chi Minh, the United States, and the Vietnam War

In nine pages this paper discusses the politics of Southeast Asia, Ho Chi Minh's Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and the US involv...

Cold War Essays

In about six pages essay answers to questions involving various elements of the Cold War including U.S. attitudes regarding the fo...

Films on the Vietnam War and the War Itself

This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...

War Attitudes Expressed in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper considers the author's attitudes regarding war as reflected in the First World War soldiers in the novel ...

Movies on the Vietnam War

Stones "Born on the 4th of July" (1989), Barry Levinsons "Good Morning,Vietnam" (1987), and Hal Ashbys "Coming Home" (1978). A goo...

United States Special Forces History and Uses

In ten pages the history of the US Special Forces and the development of its various uses during the Second World War, the Korean ...

Times of War, Art, and Music

In eight pages this paper examines the music and art popular during war times in a consideration of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacc...

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...

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 Books

but rather gives the reader the big picture in respect to what was occurring on either side and how the people felt about what was...

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,...

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...