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The Vietnam War
The inability of the United States to achieve its objectives in the Vietnam War led to a major rethinking of military doctrine, especially regarding when and in what ways the United States would use military force abroad. Examine the Vietnam conflict. What caused it? Why were American forces unable to defeat North Vietnam and the Vietcong? What was the long-term impact of the war on American foreign and military policy?
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Tour of duty: John Kerry in Vietnam. (Excerpt) Douglas Brinkley.
The Atlantic Monthly Dec 2003 v292 i5 p47(12) (8874 words)
UNCOVERED. The Talk of the Town)(activities of the Tiger Force during the Vietnam War Seymour M. Hersh.
The New Yorker Nov 10, 2003 v79 i34 p041 (1149 words)
In dubious battle: Vietnam's "infectious phantasmagoria". W. Russel Gray.
Journal of Popular Culture Nov 2003 v37 i2 p202(18) (6756 words)
1st Cav and NVA: tangle in La Drang Valley: both sides are bloodied in November 1965 in the first major bout between the U.S. Army and the North Vietnamese army. Deadliest Vietnam Battles Al Hewingway.
VFW Magazine Nov 2003 v91 i3 p38(3) (1918 words)
Learning the obvious. (Letter From Ground Zero)(U.S. foreign policy relating to the Vietnam War and the Iraq War)(Column) Jonathan Schell.
The Nation Oct 6, 2003 v277 i10 p8 (1093 words)
Lessons from the Vietnam War. I.C.F. Spry.
National Observer - Australia and World Affairs Autumn 2003 p40(11) (4044 words)
"I am the girl in the picture": when 9-year-old Kim Phuc ran screaming from napalm bombs dropped on her Vietnam village in 1972, she became an international symbol of the horrors of war. Today, she's transforming that image of pain and suffering into one of peace. (First person) Melanie Mannarino.
Marie Claire Sept 2003 v10 i9 p131(2) (1218 words)
Media and war: reflections on Vietnam: Nick Turner recalls his experience as a war correspondent during the Vietnam War. Nick Turner.
New Zealand International Review July-August 2003 v28 i4 p22(3) (3208 words)
Making history come alive with the nonfiction literature of the Vietnam War. Larry R. Johannessen.
The Social Studies July-August 2003 v94 i4 p171(8) (7179 words)
'Peace on earth-peace in Vietnam': the Catholic Peace fellowship and antiwar witness, 1964-1976. Penelope Adams Moon.
Journal of Social History Summer 2003 v36 i4 p1033(26) (13565 words)
JFK'S second term: toward the end of his life John F. Kennedy increasingly distrusted his military advisers and was changing his views on foreign policy. A fresh look at the final months of his presidency suggests that a second Kennedy term might have produced not only an American withdrawal from Vietnam but also rapprochement with Fidel Castro's Cuba. Robert Dallek.
The Atlantic Monthly June 2003 v291 i5 p58(7) (5644 words)
Lessons from the Vietnam War. I.C.F. Spry. National Observer - Australia and World Affairs Autumn 2003 p40(11) (4044 words)
Media and war: reflections on Vietnam: Nick Turner recalls his experience as a war correspondent during the Vietnam War. Nick Turner. New Zealand International Review July-August 2003 v28 i4 p22(3) (3208 words)
'Peace on earth-peace in Vietnam': the Catholic Peace fellowship and antiwar witness, 1964-1976. Penelope Adams Moon. Journal of Social History Summer 2003 v36 i4 p1033(26) (13565 words)
Welcome to the Jungle: Recruited by the CIA to be a secret army during the Vietnam War, the Hmong rebels of Laos fought communism. Now they desperately battle for their own survival. (Society) Andrew Perrin. Time International May 5, 2003 v161 i17 p34+
Nixing nukes in Vietnam: in 1966, a group of scientists studied the possible use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Here's why their report advised against it. Peter Hayes, Nina Tannenwald. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists May-June 2003 v59 i3 p52(8)
Getting out is never easy; The Vietnam war. (Critical Essay) The Economist (US) March 1, 2003 v366 i8313 pNA
The twenty-fifth platoon. (Nonfiction). Wayne Karlin. The North American Review March-April 2003 v288 i2 p43(7)
A `long way home' for the truth about Vietnam veterans: for two Vietnam veteran film producers, the quest to convey the facts about vets of that war has become their personal crusade. But those in the "mainstream" media are determined to perpetuate the negative stereotypes. (award-winning documentary television series deals with the Vietnam War) Susan Katz Keating. VFW Magazine March 2003 v90 i7 p12(3)
Nixon's nuclear ploy: Richard Nixon thought a secret, worldwide nuclear alert would remain unknown to the American public, and he was right. But his strategy--to threaten the Soviets into helping bring an end to the Vietnam war--was unsuccessful. They may not even have noticed. William Burr, Jeffrey Kimball. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Jan-Feb 2003 v59 i1 p28(12) Mag.Coll.: 112J3421.
Ambassadorial roles and foreign policy: Elbridge Durbrow, Frederick Nolting, and the U.S. commitment to Diem's Vietnam, 1957-61. (Articles). Michael R. Adamson. Presidential Studies Quarterly June 2002 v32 i2 p229(27)
Operation White Star: prelude to Vietnam. Kenn Dr. Finlayson. Special Warfare June 2002 v15 i2 p48(4)
Kerrey's Case: Not Closed. (former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey )(Brief Article) EYAL PRESS. The Nation May 20, 2002 v274 i19 p5
'I Don't See Any Way of Winning': Surprisingly, Lyndon Johnson never thought we could prevail in Vietnam. An exclusive excerpt from his secret tapes. (Book Excerpt) Michael Beschloss. Newsweek Nov 12, 2001 p58
The living room war: the military held daily briefings to report on progress. Correspondents called them the "Five O'Clock Follies". ('70). (Brief Article) Columbia Journalism Review Nov-Dec 2001 v40 i4 p68(2)
High drama at the Supreme Court: prior restraint is rejected in a case of Pentagon documents that detailed the history of the Vietnam war. ('71). (Brief Article) John Giuffo. Columbia Journalism Review Nov-Dec 2001 v40 i4 p70(2)
A Failed Truth -- A Reporter's View of Vietnam. (Brief Article) John Laurence. History Today Oct 2001 v51 i10 p8
Hugh Thompson. (hero of My Lai Massacre) Nell Boyce. U.S. News & World Report August 20, 2001 v131 i7 p33
War Wounds. CHRISTOPHER HANSON. Columbia Journalism Review July 2001 v40 i2 p40
KERREY'S CULPABILITY : Vietnam & the just-war tradition. (participation of former senator Bob Kerrey in Vietnam War and moral culpability implied by just-war theory) Gordon Marino. Commonweal June 1, 2001 v128 i11 p9 Mag.Coll.: 107M0094.
THE MEANING OF TET. (1968 Tet Offensive, Vietnam War) Victor Davis Hanson. American Heritage May-June 2001 v52 i3-4 p44 Mag.Coll.: 107A0836.
Lost Inside the Machine: A historian describes the paranoia of soldiers trapped in an unwinnable war. (Nation)(Brief Article) Stanley Karnow. Time May 7, 2001 v157 i18 p34
Black, and Navy Too: How Vietnam Era African-American Sailors Asserted Manhood through Black Power Militancy. HERMAN GRAHAM III. The Journal of Men's Studies Wntr 2001 v9 i2 p227
The impact of the Vietnam War on the USA, 1975-2001. (includes related articles) Gerard DeGroot. Modern History Review Feb 2001 v12 i3 p8(4)
VIETNAM TO KOSOVO, FUMBLE TO FARCE. IAN ADIE. Quadrant July 2000 p24
How We Won In Vietnam. VIET D. DINH. Policy Review Dec 2000 p51
Rethinking the vietnam war. John Attarian. World and I July 2000 v15 i7 p288
How Kissinger tossed away South Vietnam. Morton A. Kaplan. World and I July 2000 v15 i7 p302
The Deadly Legacy of War in Vietnam : Generations of adults and children have been killed or maimed by buried bombs and landmines. (Brief Article) CHRIS GILSON. America June 3, 2000 v182 i20 p9
The Last Days of Saigon: SPECIAL REPORT: The communist takeover of South Vietnam's capital was a low moment in the American century. Twenty-five years later, the collapse still haunts the men, politicians, soldiers and spies who were caught up in the maelstrom of the escape from the U.S. Embassy. The human story of the war's bitter end. (SPECIAL REPORT) Newsweek May 1, 2000 v135 i18 p34
The War America Lost. (Vietnamese War)(Brief Article) SEAN PRICE. New York Times Upfront April 24, 2000 v132 i17 p22
Transcending the Myths of Patriotic Militarized Masculinity: Armoring, Wounding, and Transfiguration in Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July. FRAN SHOR. The Journal of Men's Studies Spring 2000 v8 i3 p375
Between the Old Left and the New Right. (Richard Nixon and the Vietnam war) Henry A. Kissinger. Foreign Affairs May 1999 v78 i3 p99(1)
Differing evaluations of Vietnamization. (American policy towards the 1961 Vietnamese Conflict) Scott Sigmund Gartner. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Autumn 1998 v29 n2 p243(20)
My Lai, thirty years after. (1968 massacre of 504 Vietnamese villagers by US troops) Rachel Snyder. American Heritage Feb-March 1998 v49 n1 p24(4) Mag.Coll.: 93J1087.
Peace? Or defeat? What did the Vietnam war protesters want? James Webb. The American Enterprise May-June 1997 v8 n3 p46(4)
Was Vietnam JFK's war? (speculation about John F. Kennedy's proposed troop withdrawal from Vietnam) (Column) Oliver Stone. Newsweek Oct 21, 1996 v128 n17 p14(1) Mag.Coll.: 85M0841. Bus.Coll.: 97U1490.
Legal challenges to presidential policies on the use of military force. Barry N. Sweet. Policy Studies Journal Spring 1996 v24 n1 p27(15)
The origins of dissent: Senate liberals and Vietnam, 1959-1964. Robert David Johnson. Pacific Historical Review May 1996 v65 n2 p249(27)
McNamara and the civil war at home. (former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara)(Vietnam: No Discharge from That War) Angelo M. Codevilla. ORBIS Fall 1995 v39 n4 p517(9)
The 'healing powers' of McNamara and Rusk. (influence and accountability of Secretaries of State Robert McNamara and Dean Rusk for the Vietnam War) Charles A. Cerami. America June 3, 1995 v172 n20 p19(4) Mag.Coll.: 79J0092.
Vietnam and memory. (lessons of Vietnam War) National Review May 15, 1995 v47 n9 p20(1)
Body counts and 'success' in the Vietnam and Korean wars. Scott Sigmund Gartner, Marissa Edson Myers. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Wntr 1995 v25 n3 p377(19)
Frank Church, the senate, and the emergence of dissent on the Vietnam War. David F. Schmitz, Natalie Fousekis. Pacific Historical Review Nov 1994 v63 n4 p561(21)
The Johnson tapes. (Lyndon Johnson) (American Survey) The Economist (US) Oct 2, 1993 v329 n7831 pA31(1)
Sacrifice, victimization, and mismanagement of issues: LBJ's Vietnam crisis. (Lyndon B. Johnson) (Special Issue: Public Relations and Religion) David Stiles Shipley. Public Relations Review Fall 1992 v18 n3 p275(12) Bus.Coll.: 67V0142.
Clinton and Vietnam. (Bill Clinton)(Beat the Devil) (Column) Alexander Cockburn. The Nation Oct 12, 1992 v255 n11 p386(1) Mag.Coll.: 66D0091.
America and Vietnam: the unending war. George C. Herring. Foreign Affairs Winter 1991 v70 n5 p104(16) Mag.Coll.: 62J0119.
They shoot allies, don't they? When, 25 years ago, Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated, his supporters blamed the United States. They were right. Francis X. Winters. National Review Nov 25, 1988 v40 n23 p34(4) Mag.Coll.: 47D0225.
Vietnam, and the battle for reality. (interview with Neil Sheehan) (interview) Alvin P. Sanoff. U.S. News & World Report Oct 24, 1988 v105 n16 p73(1) Mag.Coll.: 46L0372. Bus.Coll.: 41P0790.
How we lost: too little strategy, too much 'intelligence.' (Vietnam) Harry G. Summer Jr.. The New Republic April 29, 1985 v192 p20(4) Mag.Coll.: 27D0145.
The empire's new clothes: what the French learned at Dien Bien Phu. Henry Fairlie. The New Republic April 29, 1985 v192 p17(3) Mag.Coll.: 27D0142. |
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