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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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Not a Gentleman's War
Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers. Written by a combat veteran of the Vietnam War,Not a Gentleman's Waris about such soldiers--a gritty, against-the-grain defense of the much-maligned junior officer.Conventional wisdom holds that the junior officer in Vietnam was a no-talent, poorly trained, unmotivated soldier typified by Lt. William Calley of My Lai infamy. Drawing on oral histories, after-action reports, diaries, letters, and other archival sources, Ron Milam debunks this view, demonstrating that most of the lieutenants who served in combat performed their duties well and effectively, serving with great skill, dedication, and commitment to the men they led. Milam's narrative provides a vivid, on-the-ground portrait of what the platoon leader faced: training his men, keeping racial tensions at bay, and preventing alcohol and drug abuse, all in a war without fronts. Yet despite these obstacles, junior officers performed admirably, as documented by field reports and evaluations of their superior officers.More than 5,000 junior officers died in Vietnam; all of them had volunteered to lead men in battle. Based on meticulous and wide-ranging research, this book provides a much-needed serious treatment of these men--the only such study in print--shedding new light on the longest war in American history.
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The War after the War
In The War after the War , Johannes Kadura offers a
fresh interpretation of American strategy in the wake of the
cease-fire that began in Vietnam on January 28, 1973. The U.S. exit
from Vietnam continues to be important in discussions of
present-day U.S. foreign policy, so it is crucial that it be
interpreted correctly. In challenging the prevailing version of the
history of the events, Kadura provides interesting correctives to
the different accounts, including the ones of the key actors
themselves, President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger foremost among them. In so doing, Kadura aims to forge a
synthesis between orthodox and revisionist interpretations of this
important period.
Kadura finds that the strategy employed by Nixon and Kissinger
centered on the concepts of \"equilibrium strategy\" and \"insurance
policy.\" That approach allowed them to follow a twofold strategy of
making a major effort to uphold South Vietnam while at the same
time maintaining a fallback strategy of downplaying the overall
significance of Vietnam. Whether they won or lost on their primary
bet to secure South Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger expected to come
through the crisis in a viable strategic position.
In The War after the War , Johannes Kadura offers a
fresh interpretation of American strategy in the wake of the
cease-fire that began in Vietnam on January 28, 1973. The U.S. exit
from Vietnam continues to be important in discussions of
present-day U.S. foreign policy, so it is crucial that it be
interpreted correctly. In challenging the prevailing version of the
history of the events, Kadura provides interesting correctives to
the different accounts, including the ones of the key actors
themselves, President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger foremost among them. In so doing, Kadura aims to forge a
synthesis between orthodox and revisionist interpretations of this
important period.Kadura finds that the strategy employed by Nixon
and Kissinger centered on the concepts of \"equilibrium strategy\"
and \"insurance policy.\" That approach allowed them to follow a
twofold strategy of making a major effort to uphold South Vietnam
while at the same time maintaining a fallback strategy of
downplaying the overall significance of Vietnam. Whether they won
or lost on their primary bet to secure South Vietnam, Nixon and
Kissinger expected to come through the crisis in a viable strategic
position.
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The Vietnam War in American Memory
A study of American attempts to come to terms with the legacy of the Vietnam War, this book highlights the central role played by Vietnam veterans in shaping public memory of the war. Tracing the evolution of the image of the Vietnam veteran from alienated dissenter to traumatized victim to noble warrior, Patrick Hagopian describes how efforts to commemorate the war increasingly downplayed the political divisions it spawned in favor of a more unifying emphasis on honoring veterans and promoting national “healing.”
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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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Resister
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took part in the 1963 March on Washington as a fifteen-year-old. He became the first student at Cornell to defy the draft by tearing up his draft card and soon became a leader of the draft resistance movement. He also turned down a student deferment and refused induction into the armed services. He was the principal organizer of the first mass draft card burning during the Vietnam War, an activist in the Resistance (a nationwide organization against the draft), and a cofounder and president of the Cornell chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. Dancis spent nineteen months in federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky, for his actions against the draft.
In Resister, Dancis not only gives readers an insider's account of the antiwar and student protest movements of the sixties but also provides a rare look at the prison experiences of Vietnam-era draft resisters. Intertwining memory, reflection, and history, Dancis offers an engaging firsthand account of some of the era's most iconic events, including the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Abbie Hoffman-led \"hippie invasion\" of the New York Stock Exchange, the antiwar confrontation at the Pentagon in 1967, and the dangerous controversy that erupted at Cornell in 1969 involving African American students, their SDS allies, and the administration and faculty. Along the way, Dancis also explores the relationship between the topical folk and rock music of the era and the political and cultural rebels who sought to change American society.
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The other alliance
Using previously classified documents and original interviews,The Other Allianceexamines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard narratives of American and West German social mobilization, Martin Klimke demonstrates the strong transnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic.
Klimke shows that the cold war partnership of the American and German governments was mirrored by a coalition of rebelling counterelites, whose common political origins and opposition to the Vietnam War played a vital role in generating dissent in the United States and Europe. American protest techniques such as the \"sit-in\" or \"teach-in\" became crucial components of the main organization driving student activism in West Germany--the German Socialist Student League--and motivated American and German student activists to construct networks against global imperialism. Klimke traces the impact that Black Power and Germany's unresolved National Socialist past had on the German student movement; he investigates how U.S. government agencies, such as the State Department's Interagency Youth Committee, advised American policymakers on confrontations with student unrest abroad; and he highlights the challenges student protesters posed to cold war alliances.
Exploring the catalysts of cross-pollination between student protest movements on two continents,The Other Allianceis a pioneering work of transnational history.
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