Quayle goes on to point out, “I believe that concurrent with the nuclear war, we will see preceding it for a short period of time, the absolute civil war mayhem, and you can call this anarchy. It is basically going to turn this country inside out. What happens when there is no Socia...
Opening during America’s bicentennial year, offering a somber portrait of a nation reeling from Vietnam and descending into moral bankruptcy, Taxi Driver drew inspiration from Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground, updating the tale to chronicle a mentally disturbed war vet, Travis Bickle (Robert De...
When the U.S. troops fled from the Vietnam War, they left a devastated land riddled with millions of land mines and unexploded ordnances, which had also been defoliated by millions of gallons of Agent Orange, a deadly herbicide that causes cancer, neurological damage, and birth defects. Sin...
Home / Vietnam / America's Paradoxical Trinity: WWII and Vietnam By Walter S. Zapotoczny According to Carl von Clausewitz, the nineteenth century military philosopher, war is always comprised of what he called a paradoxical trinity. In his book On War, Clausewitz described this trinity as an...
One reason he had put the car up on blocks in California was that the winding roads were confusing. In the space of ten miles the sun in his eyes would be around at his back. The lack of any right angles made it difficult for him to find his bearings. With the angles gone, what ...
about the level of criticism of the war in Iraq. People often compare it to Vietnam, with desperate questions as to why the American public aren't getting as worked up this time around. But the fact is that by the time we were this deep in Vietnam, the public was still hardly taking...
government-written history of the Vietnam War, to the New York Times. No one had ever published such classified documents before, and reporters at the Times feared they would go to jail under the Espionage Act (the same law under which Jack Teixeira is charged.) A federal court ordered ...
he thought the only way to know what is going on in the Vietnam war was to put on an army uniform and hit the ground. That took brass aggots. Upon his return and with the help of his wife-to-be, he changed from a hawk to a dove, which eventually led him to leak the Pentagon...
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story. ~ Mira Nair ~ In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the ...
A million killed in Vietnam 800,000 in Laos, and another 800,000 in Cambodia. A million in Iraq Before I was born, the U.S. played a significant role in unnecessarily killing tens of millions of people in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. None of those wars were "...