Countless Americans lack education of the Vietnam War and what treatment the Vietnamese population received during the war. Many times the behavior conducted towards the Vietnamese portrayed American soldiers mistreating the noncombatants. James W. Loewen’s chapter nine of Lies My Teacher Told Me leads readers through the occurrences in the Vietnam War by elaborating the war crimes enacted by American soldiers, examining the intervention of America in the war, and describing pictures that were taken during the war. One subject Loewen uncovers is the analysis of the war crimes throughout the Vietnam War.
R. McMaster is an American soldier and a career officer in the U.S army. The purpose of McMaster’s book is to analyze how and why the United States becomes involved in the Vietnam War. During this, the author also explains on what he thinks why the president decided to keep the war going instead and escalate it. McMaster came to a conclusion that Johnson made the mess himself and he chose to escalate the war. The author presents the war as a consequence of specific decisions made by specific men, Lyndon B. Johnson.
In a “Vietnam Veterans against the war”, John Kerry’s comment on President Nixon not wanting to become, “the first President to lose a war,” illustrates just how insistent Nixon was on maintaining a superior Presidential image of power. Ironically, Nixon has one of the more, if not the most, tarnished Presidential image due to the Watergate scandal. Kerry’s speech drove the idea that the Veterans fighting in Vietnam did not believe that they were there to do good and did not feel that they were the “heroes” liberalizing the Vietnamese from the dangers of communism. As he notes, most people there did not understand the difference between communism and democracy. The freedom the Vietnamese sought was liberation from the helicopters, the bombs,
A. Plan of Investigation This investigation will assess the effectiveness of Nixon 's Vietnamization Policy of the Vietnam war to end U.S. involvement. The scope of my research will assess the effectiveness of Nixon’s Vietnamization Policy to end the U.S. involvement during the Vietnam war, as well as the involvement of the women in the military, Nixon’s Doctrine, and the new economic policy that caused the end of the U.S. involvement of the Vietnam war between 1945-1975. The methods to be used in this investigation will be primary and secondary sources historical textbook in search of Nixon, 1972. This investigation will evaluate the effectiveness of the new economic policy In Search of Nixon: A Psychohistorical Inquiry.
Most people don’t know much about what exactly happened in the Vietnam War. Should this war have even happened? Many Americans believe this war was unnecessary for the armed forces to participate in, especially because of the damage caused in WWII. Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They carry, offers a collection of short stories in which each expresses the different Vietnam experiences. Every story in this novel was impressive for its own unique reason.
Nixon was determined to dispel the myths of Vietnam, to show why we failed in Vietnam, and to contribute to the development of policies that will aid future similar events. Although the book was a good read, there are some negatives to Nixon’s writing. In a such a controversial event, there has to be multiple
Robert S. McNamara’s legacy is undoubtedly how he redefined the Secretary of Defense's role in the White House, but I am interested in his thoughts on the war afterward. From my research, I have found that McNamara heavily regretted the Vietnam War as a whole. In his memoir, “In Retrospect”, he writes about how he believed the communist threat was truly not that large of a threat, and he questioned if Soviet and Chinese behavior would have been different if the United States had not ever been involved in the Vietnam War. He also pinpointed eleven different “failures” of the war, like how there was a failure to involve Congress and the American people in a pros-and-cons-Esque discussion of entering Vietnam. McNamara retained the idea of how
In A Viet Cong Memoir, we receive excellent first hands accounts of events that unfolded in Vietnam during the Vietnam War from the author of this autobiography: Truong Nhu Tang. Truong was Vietnamese at heart, growing up in Saigon, but he studied in Paris for a time where he met and learned from the future leader Ho Chi Minh. Truong was able to learn from Ho Chi Minh’s revolutionary ideas and gain a great political perspective of the conflicts arising in Vietnam during the war. His autobiography shows the readers the perspective of the average Vietnamese citizen (especially those involved with the NLF) and the attitudes towards war with the United States. In the book, Truong exclaims that although many people may say the Americans never lost on the battlefield in Vietnam — it is irrelevant.
Fowler’s description of Vietnam depicts different examples of his view of the country. He describes the beauty of “The gold of the rice-fields under the flat late sun ... the gold and the young green and the bright dresses of the south,” along with the darkness of the war: “in the north the deep browns and the black clothes and the circle of enemy mountains and the drone of planes. ”(Greene, 1955, p.17). Fowler sees both the positive and the negative in the country of Vietnam and presents his knowledge of both.
VanDeMark uses primary source and secondary sources to find information from Lyndon Bines Johnson library in Austin, Texas (VanDeMark, 1995). VanDeMark uses Vietnam documents, National Security File (NSF), Pentagon Papers, government publication, newspaper/ Periodicals, contemporary books. For the secondary sources, VanDeMark use Richard Dean Burns and Milton Leitenberg, The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1983) and Richard Dean Burns, Guide to American Foreign Relations since 1700 (Santa Barbara: ABC- Clio, 1983) (VanDeMark, 1995). The author document the book well because he arranges the event in chronological order from the beginning to the end of the Vietnam War.
American Decades Primary Sources, edited by Cynthia Rose, vol. 8: 1970-1979, Gale, 2004, pp. 224-230. U.S. History in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3490201507/UHIC?u=dove10524&xid=bb85da9d. Accessed 14 Feb. 2018. "Congress, U.S." Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, edited by Stanley I. Kutler, Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1996.
Ellsberg’s treatment by the White House Plumbers, along with the sensitive information revealed in the Pentagon Papers, helped to usher in an era of guarded distrust in American politics, that pervades the American political climate even today. I aim to use the Pentagon Papers themselves, along with other primary and secondary sources, to prove that the release of the Pentagon Papers and the subsequent experiences of Daniel Ellsberg helped to damage the public perception of the American government, both at home and abroad. Fully declassified in 2011, the Pentagon Papers are a collection of sensitive military documents that chronicle the United States involvement in Vietnam. Actually titled “United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense”, the Pentagon Papers were originally commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to act as a standing history of the United States’ involvement in the war, to avoid future inaccuracies and misconceptions about the war.
The United States Vietnam Relations is an examination which was prepared by the US Department of Defense containing the history of the US’s political and military involvement in Vietnam from the years 1945-1967. More commonly, we refer to these as the Pentagon Papers. Uncovered by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg and his friend Anthony Russo, the Pentagon Papers caught the public’s attention in 1971 on the front page of The New York Times who would later state that the Johnson Administration “systematically lied, not only to the public but also to congress.” In addition, the papers revealed coastal raids on North Vietnam, bombings in Cambodia and Laos, and attacks by the Marine Corps which the mainstream media did not report. These events exposed knowledge that the US had expanded the scale of the war in Vietnam.
The big failure America in the Vietnam War is the shameful history of tragic scene for arrogant American, whose pain is still difficult to ease. The crucial event also had a profound impact on today 's international situation. It is believed that the failure included political, economic, military and cultural background and other aspects, which are that common. When it comes to the controversial subject, I hope to put forward some fresh views from where I stand. 1.
Abstract The Pentagon Papers was a top-secret report of the military involvement in the Vietnam War from 1945 to 1967. It was kept hidden until a man named Daniel Ellsberg decided that he did not think it should be kept a secret any longer. He decided to send a copy of the report to the New York Times, which was public to all. The Pentagon Papers had an impact on a variety of things during this time.
