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What caused the Vietnam War?
Examines the causes behind the Vietnam War and how different countries, including the United States, were involved.
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Between War and the State
In Between War and the
State , Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array
of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional,
charitable, community development, student, women's, and rights
organizations active in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975.
By bringing focus to the public lives of South Vietnamese people,
Between War and the State challenges persistent
stereotypes of South Vietnam as a place without society or agency.
Such robust associational life underscores how an active civil
society survived despite difficulties imposed by the war,
government restrictions, economic hardship, and external political
forces. These competing political forces, which included the United
States, Western aid agencies, and Vietnamese communist agents,
created a highly competitive arena wherein the South Vietnamese
state did not have a monopoly on persuasive or coercive power. To
maintain its influence, the state sometimes needed to accommodate
groups and limit its use of violence. Civil society participants in
South Vietnam leveraged their social connections, made alliances,
appealed to the domestic and international public, and used street
protests to voice their concerns, secure their interests, and carry
out their activities.
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Looking back on the Vietnam War : twenty-first century perspectives
\"Looking Back on the Vietnam War reflects on the half-century since the 1965 U.S. escalation of conflict in Viet Nam, asking what, how, and why we know about the Vietnam War. While the war in all of its complexities is written about from a number of disciplinary perspectives, those dominant narratives often tell a limited story, one often told in isolation from other disciplinary perspectives. Looking Back suggests we take stock of the stories absent from dominant narratives of the War, and that we do that stock-taking through the lenses of multiple disciplines and perspectives. Based on the idea that Vietnamese stories, both those set in the postwar Viet Nam and also in the Vietnamese diaspora, are crucial to understanding the Vietnam War, this volume brings together essays examining Vietnamese and diasporic conditions with those examining U.S. traces of the War. Looking Back also attends to the significance of the present in the act of recollecting as it reflects on the war's echoes in the current era of endless U.S. warring. The volume engages in a dual looking back--both in the sense of remembering and of reconsidering--to offer a fuller picture of the Vietnam War by showing the perspectives of groups and issues that have largely escaped serious attention in popular narratives of the war\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hanoi's road to the Vietnam War, 1954–1965
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading to national reunification under their rule; they never imagined that within a decade they would be engaged in an even bigger feud with the United States. Basing his work on new and largely inaccessible Vietnamese materials as well as French, British, Canadian, and American documents, Pierre Asselin explores the communist path to war. Specifically, he examines the internal debates and other elements that shaped Hanoi's revolutionary strategy in the decade preceding U.S. military intervention, and resulting domestic and foreign programs. Without exonerating Washington for its role in the advent of hostilities in 1965, Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War demonstrates that those who directed the effort against the United States and its allies in Saigon were at least equally responsible for creating the circumstances that culminated in arguably the most tragic conflict of the Cold War era.
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The sorrow of war : a novel of North Vietnam
The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a North Vietnamese infantryman. In a series of flashbacks, as he buries the dead following a battle, the narrator recounts his 10 years of service, the comrades he lost and the way the war ruined the love of his life. The author is a veteran of the NVA's Glorious 27th Youth Brigade, a 500-man unit from which only 10 men survived. He lives in Hanoi.
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War! What Is It Good For?
African Americans' long campaign for \"the right to fight\" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. InWar! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars after Truman's order and their protracted struggles for equal citizenship galvanized a vibrant antiwar activism that reshaped their struggles for freedom.Using an array of sources--from newspapers and government documents to literature, music, and film--and tracing the period from World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Phillips considers how federal policies that desegregated the military also maintained racial, gender, and economic inequalities. Since 1945, the nation's need for military labor, blacks' unequal access to employment, and discriminatory draft policies have forced black men into the military at disproportionate rates. While mainstream civil rights leaders considered the integration of the military to be a civil rights success, many black soldiers, veterans, and antiwar activists perceived war as inimical to their struggles for economic and racial justice and sought to reshape the civil rights movement into an antiwar black freedom movement. Since the Vietnam War, Phillips argues, many African Americans have questioned linking militarism and war to their concepts of citizenship, equality, and freedom.
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Timeline of the Vietnam War
This book provides a timeline of military and political events that occured during the Vietnam War.
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Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars
This extraordinary memoir tells the story of one man's experience of the wars of Viet Nam from the time he was old enough to be aware of war in the 1940s until his departure for America 15 years after the collapse of South Viet Nam in 1975. Nguyen Cong Luan was born and raised in small villages near Ha Noi. He grew up knowing war at the hands of the Japanese, the French, and the Viet Minh. Living with wars of conquest, colonialism, and revolution led him finally to move south and take up the cause of the Republic of Viet Nam, exchanging a life of victimhood for one of a soldier. His stories of village life in the north are every bit as compelling as his stories of combat and the tragedies of war. This honest and impassioned account is filled with the everyday heroism of the common people of his generation.
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Deceit on the Road to War
In Deceit on the Road to War , John M. Schuessler
examines how U.S. presidents have deceived the American public
about fundamental decisions of war and peace. Deception has been
deliberate, he suggests, as presidents have sought to shift blame
for war onto others in some cases and oversell its benefits in
others. Such deceit is a natural outgrowth of the democratic
process, in Schuessler's view, because elected leaders have
powerful incentives to maximize domestic support for war and retain
considerable ability to manipulate domestic audiences. They can
exploit information and propaganda advantages to frame issues in
misleading ways, cherry-pick supporting evidence, suppress damaging
revelations, and otherwise skew the public debate to their benefit.
These tactics are particularly effective before the outbreak of
war, when the information gap between leaders and the public is
greatest.
When resorting to deception, leaders take a calculated risk that
the outcome of war will be favorable, expecting the public to adopt
a forgiving attitude after victory is secured. The three cases
featured in the book-Franklin Roosevelt and World War II, Lyndon
Johnson and the Vietnam War, and George W. Bush and the Iraq
War-test these claims. Schuessler concludes that democracies are
not as constrained in their ability to go to war as we might
believe and that deception cannot be ruled out in all cases as
contrary to the national interest.
In Deceit on the Road to War , John M. Schuessler
examines how U.S. presidents have deceived the American public
about fundamental decisions of war and peace. Deception has been
deliberate, he suggests, as presidents have sought to shift blame
for war onto others in some cases and oversell its benefits in
others. Such deceit is a natural outgrowth of the democratic
process, in Schuessler's view, because elected leaders have
powerful incentives to maximize domestic support for war and retain
considerable ability to manipulate domestic audiences. They can
exploit information and propaganda advantages to frame issues in
misleading ways, cherry-pick supporting evidence, suppress damaging
revelations, and otherwise skew the public debate to their benefit.
These tactics are particularly effective before the outbreak of
war, when the information gap between leaders and the public is
greatest.When resorting to deception, leaders take a calculated
risk that the outcome of war will be favorable, expecting the
public to adopt a forgiving attitude after victory is secured. The
three cases featured in the book-Franklin Roosevelt and World War
II, Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, and George W. Bush and the
Iraq War-test these claims. Schuessler concludes that democracies
are not as constrained in their ability to go to war as we might
believe and that deception cannot be ruled out in all cases as
contrary to the national interest.
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