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This book examines young American war refusers and transnational activism during the Vietnam War.

Mr. Marti Demiquels, the author of this book and a dedicated collector himself, has put together not only most of the pieces contained in the following pages, but a complete museum on the Vietnam War as well, amassed throughout an entire lifetime of passionate study and collecting. This book is a stunning visual record of uniforms, equipment and pe

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,7, Universität Regensburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die zentrale Fragestellung dieser Arbeit lautet: Wie wurde der Vietnamkrieg im Hollywoodfilm der 80er Jahre kritisiert? Exemplarisch werden dafür jeweils zwei Szenen aus den Werken Platoon und Full Metal Jacket untersucht und auf die in ihnen geäußerte Kritik an der amerikanischen Intervention analysiert. Davor ist es jedoch notwendig auf den Verlauf des Vietnamkrieges an sich und das Verhältnis der Medien zum Kriegsverlauf einzugehenPlatoon ist eine von unzähligen Hollywoodproduktionen, die sich zwischen 1964 und 1987 mit dem Thema der amerikanischen Intervention in Südostasien beschäftigt. Auffällig jedoch ist, dass es kaum Propagandafilme für den Vietnamkrieg gibt. ¿The Green Berets (1968) blieb der einzig wesentliche Versuch, die US-Politik im Kino propagandistisch zu unterstützen.¿ Im Gegenteil, gibt es viele Filme, die sich aus diversen Blickwinkeln, stets aber kritisch mit dem Krieg in Südostasien befassen. Vor allem in den späten 1970ern entstanden viele kritische Filme, wie Apocalypse Now (1979) oder The Deer Hunter (1978). Erst zu Beginn der 1980er Jahre unter der Reagan-Regierung entstanden vermehrt Streifen, die das amerikanische Engagement im Vietnam in ein besseres Licht rücken sollten (Rambo, Missing in Action). Nachdem der Präsident abgetreten war nahm die Entwicklung des Vietnamfilms eine erneute Wende. Mit zwei Produktionen, die nicht nur bei den Zuschauern im Kino, sondern auch bei Kritikern auf Begeisterung stießen, erhielt der vietnamkritische Film gegen Ende der 1980er Jahre seinen Höhepunkt. Der eingangs erwähnte Film Platoon und Full Metal Jacket von Stanley Kubrick, der eine Art Schlussstrich unter das Genre ziehen konnte , kamen beinahe zeitgleich auf den Markt und zogen, beide auf ihre Weise, kritische Fazits über den Vietnamkrieg.

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: USA, grade: 1,7, University of Kent (Department of International Relations), language: English, abstract: The following essay intends to illustrate, with the help of comparing revisionist and orthodox theory, the reasons for the failed war in Vietnam for the U.S. and whether it is fair to claim that the U.S. lost the war. Furthermore, I intend to show how the war had an impact on the subsequent foreign policy of the U.S.These questions can be answered in several different ways, depending on which school of thought the field of international relation studies is used in particular are they differing in the perception whether the engagement in Indochina was necessary at all?

An elegant biography of a highly influential twentieth-century military thinker, a man haunted by both the Holocaust and the futility of modern warfare.

The "anti-war movement" occurred at a time of the convergence of several emerging movements. -This book is an exposé of the microcosms of the war at home and the war in Vietnam.

Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the 1968 Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and much less familiar miniatures such as the bloodbath at Daido?where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out?together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh's warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it overwhelmingly as one for the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings, and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners' victory in privation and oppression. Here we are given testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bar girls, and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, and Huey pilots from Arkansas. No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences in the fashion that Hastings's readers know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle, and presents many lessons for the twenty-first century about the misuse of military might to confront intractable political and cultural challenges. In Vietnam, Hastings marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record.

From "a master of narrative journalism" (New York Times Book Review), a riveting history of the biggest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War

"Claymore mines and Cobra gunships - and more. This soldier's memoir gives us the straw-sweet smell of JP-4 fuel mingling with the stench of stark terror soaked into bunker sandbag and chopper fuselage by GIs who were there before, and moved on - whole, or shattered, or in a body bag ... vivid images from a bitter war. A Cobra mechanic, he offers a knothole view of short-timer daredevil pilots, S.O.S. and tepid coffee in the mess hall; classically stupid sergeants - and a paratroop general playing Santa Claus for grunts on the wire Christmas Eve. That's just for starters..." - William R. Burkett, Jr., Shadow of a SoldierDoes this sound like your typical Vietnam book? Richard T. Edwards rebuilt an AH-1G Cobra almost by himself, get left on Firebase T Bone with Mortar rounds blowing off around him. He found parts where there were none, met the 5th Dimension in Osaka, Japan, got flown up to the DMZ and took a picture of a Red Flag there along with the remains of Hillbilly crazy chopper pilots who played capture the flag and lost. Did we also mention that he rode shotgun on a trash truck filled with C-4 donated by the grunts? Does this sound like you're average Vietnam storybook? It's not.

"A sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious account of life as a young soldier with a dangerous mission in the early years of the Vietnam War. A true soldier's tale that I could not put down once I started reading it."- Harry O'Connor"We live in a tumultuous times ... a new President, a controversial administration ... wars and rumors of war reflect the bellicosity of the populist movement. Robert Stave's book "The First General Order," is so opportune and timely. It definitively exposes the horrors of war. His adroit handling of the ill-fated Vietnam War, fought by American teenagers reflects a tragic replication of America history." - Sean Quitler, Professor at University College, Dublin and Lynn University, Florida (retired)A soldier's story, RA's US's NG's ... The PFC's, Speedy Fours, Shit Can burners, KP and dining Room Orderlies who waited on tables one day and were asked to die the next. Sing no sad songs, there were no pup tent poets, just be there and be square and when you are done your own Mama won't want you back. "Mado, Mado where you've been ... up snake hill and back again: your left, your left, right, left. Two old ladies were lying in bed; one rolled over to the other and said: GOTTA GO, GOTTA GO, AIRBORNE." Call cadence count ... AIRBORNE, ALL THE WAY."

The Vietnam War lasted nine years (1964-1973) with Americans finally leaving in 1975 during the fall of Saigon. In 1966, two years after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, fifty American pilots and aircrewmen held captive by the North Vietnamese in the most horrible conditions were put on dramatic public display and paraded through the streets of Hanoi. This is their story, a saga of a harrowing journey from light into darkness.

With first-hand insight into the into the key role of the US Air Force's fighter-bomber from the Vietnam War through to Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War, this book is an unmissable account of some of the most dangerous and demanding missions in the two wars.The advent of the surface-to-air missile (SAM) in the early 1950s threatened the whole concept of aerial bombing from medium and high altitude. Countermeasures were developed during the Korean War, but with little initial success. It was only in the closing stages of the Vietnam War, with the F-4Cww Phantom II (Wild Weasel 4), that this equipment started to become successful enough to allow a substantial investment in converting 116 F-4E Phantom IIs into dedicated SEAD aircraft. This move introduced a new generation of anti-radar missiles which became invaluable in later operations including operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Northern Watch over Iraq. This volume features dynamic archival photography from crews who flew the jet, alongside mission accounts and technical details of the development and fielding of the F-4 Wild Weasel in its various iterations. Including specially commissioned artwork of 'sharkmouthed' Phantom IIs in Vietnam jungle camouflage and more modern USAF 'Ghost Gray', this book is the ultimate visual and technical guide to the F-4 Phantom II Wild Weasel Units in combat.

"In the years from 1965 to 1968, LBJ struggles to fight a 'war on poverty' even as his war in Vietnam spins out of control. Besieged by political opponents, Johnson marshals all his political wiles to try to pass some of the most important social programs in U.S. history, while the country descends into chaos over the war and backlash against civil rights"--Back cover.

The Indochinese refugee resettlement effort that our government started in the mid-1970s produced a number of distinguished personalities. But even in this restricted company, Nguyen Van Hanh stands out for a personal story that is hard to equal. His long and committed service to refugees places him in the first ranks of eminent humanitarians. War, famine, persecution ... have produced millions of displaced people and refugees around the globe throughout history of mankind. As the leader of the free world, the United States has traditionally absorbed the largest share of refugees in need and helped the newcomers become self-reliant in the land of freedom. Honor and Trust - My Journey with America's Refugees 1975-2020 presents a comprehensive account of the exodus of the Southeast Asian refugees in the aftermath of the Vietnam War since 1975 and their adaptation in America. Distilled from personal experiences in service programs in California and later in Washington, D.C. at the national level, the author's professional and social interactions with State and Federal officials, charity agencies, and community-based organizations offer a rich presentation in personal perspectives of government policies and programs and coordination of the successful U.S. national refugee program admired around the world. The courage and determination of over a million Vietnamese who escaped the Communist rule, their struggle to gain self-reliance in the U.S. and their remarkable legacy continue the proud American tradition to welcome and assist refugees, leading to their long-term contribution to America's economic strength and cultural diversity.