To protect them from the stress of war, draftees served in Vietnam for just over a year. As victory did not appear to be in sight, surviving this period became the soldiers' main objective. As one marine explained: "You developed a survival mentality. You stop thinking about what you're...
Teanek: “Theoretically, you’re right, but in practice what you’re saying is very silly. It’s like convincing yourself—as I bet you do—that when you describe people dying in war you’re helping to abolish war. On the contrary. The more you see people who’ve been killed in war...
In late January of 1968, the communist state of North Vietnam launched a surprise attack on its southern neighbor, the fledgling democratic nation of South Vietnam. The communists were hoping to knock South Vietnam and their U.S. allies out of the war for good, and ultimately, to establish...
The second reason is escaping tariffs. Vietnam is able to circumvent duties due to its participation in several free trade agreements. This trend especially started to pick up due to the US-China trade war and the additional push of Vietnam’s intertwining in global FTAs. ...
It was released in 1979 which was just 4 years after the Vietnam war had ended. At this point,memories of war were still freshin the minds of the U.S. public, which made this movie even more unnerving. Arguably, the tense and edgy nature of the film went on to influence other Viet...
Kohima held, but if the Japanese had simply bypassed it and seized the defenseless Dimapur to its rear, they would have cut the rail line to all British, American, and Chinese operations in eastern India and northern Burma. This could have seriously disrupted the Allied war effort in the ...
President Richard Nixon addressed the nation in a televised broadcast in which he explained that American military troops, engaged in the Vietnam War, had been sent into neighboring Cambodia. This action — perceived by many as an expansion of the war and an invasion of another country — came...
record. associated press reporter peter arnett, who had won a pulitzer prize for his coverage of the war, wrote in the los angeles times, “in its 20 years of war, there was not a single recorded case of russian roulette.… the central metaphor of the movie is simply a bloody lie.”...
“With grieving, for instance, something can trigger your grief, and you step back into that moment and feel the pain,” Mai explained. “However, you accept and acknowledge the fact that person is no longer here. But with mourning, it’s almost like you are stuck in the stage of loss...
Vaughn spoke out against the war and LBJ’s policy there. “Everyone at the front table had hands over their eyes,” Vaughn later explained when asked about the reaction. Vaughn became worried about the Vietnam War after immersing himself in all the documents, books and articles he could fin...