- lessons from military tacticsa) 3 generals, the same destinationIt is always a popular topic for Vietnam-War history enthusiasts that William Westmoreland or Creighton Abrams, who is a better commander? Lots of books (Sorley, 1999, 2011; Daddis, 2013, 2017) are on their art of command a...
DiscriminationagainstVietnameseImmigrants in AmericaVietnamesedid not magically appear in the United States‚ the Vietnam War sparked the immigration ofVietnameseto America.Vietnamesedid not virtually exist in the United States until 1975 when the war forcedVietnameseto evacuate (Povell). The war...
is rationalized with this alibi. It is their ‘go-to’ defense for everything – Insert: “It’s for the good of the country”, regardless of the appropriateness, and as a simple convenience to excuse the self-serving nature of the
However, there is somewhat less of a history of research and discourse on the impact that military service and war have had on the lives of those Latinos that have served in the military, particularly the impact on health. Research which examines the aspects of the Vietnam War experience ...
Frumkin (1951) and the United Nations (1971) provide general assessment of post-war baby booms, showing that in the long term the overall effect of all conflicts on the global population is nil or slightly positive (Notestein, Taeuber, Kirk, Coale, and Kiser 1944...
thwart Communist aggression. The Iranian hostage-taking and the rise of radical Islam itself were predicated on the idea that a post-Vietnam America would not intervene against terrorists, whether in Tehran or Lebanon. And Vietnam, of course, today is no South Korea, as millions there without...
What were the positive and negative effects of European imperialism? How did the French Revolutionary and Napoloeonic Wars affect America? How is the Vietnam War an example of decolonization? How did the Seven Years' War affect the French Revolution? How was French Indochina used before coloniza...
Daniel Ellsberg’s (1972) famous critique of the “quagmire model,” a popular explanation for America’s disastrous entanglement in the Vietnam War, is a textbook example. The quagmire model, believed by most Americans, holds that a policy of ‘one more step’—each new step always ...
Johnson lied to the American public about how the war in Vietnam was going in order to preserve public morale. In 1967, he painted the picture like everything was going according to plan and the fighting would soon end. The truth was quite different. Once the Tet Offensive took place a...
the men to open the bag since they were profoundly greedy and have been battling in a war for ten years. On page 36 of the novel, it states, “Then Poseidon, swimming invisibly alongside, clinked his golden armlets. The men heard the clinking and thought it came from the bag.” ...