Vietnam War By Lawrence Analysis

The infamous Vietnam War haunts, just as much as fascinates, the American conscious. As the generation which experienced the war first hand dies out it is all the more important to look back on that turbulent time in American history, and collect as much information possible, before it is too late. With these thoughts in mind, historians have been researching the war, its causes, and effects, from the time of the war itself. Naturally, as with all things in life, different opinions and interpretations have arisen from different sources, often stemming on whether the war was justified or not. When analyzing these different interpretations, it is important to keep in mind what perspective it is written from, for instance, was it written by an

This is done through describing their motives and reasons (mostly the United States’) as to condemn the United States on its hypocrisy. All the while, Vietnam itself is only sparsely mentioned throughout the essay, being relegated a reactionary position with little urgency. At some points the North Vietnam state is expressed in a subordinate, even servant-like, role to the Soviet Union. This contradiction does not detract from the overall argument very much, instead it announces a focus from the very start, but changes part of the way

From the very onset the paranoid atmosphere of the cold war is established effectively as a meeting between “Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Ho Chi Minh.” A meeting that would doom Indochina to “warfare, tyrant, and economic stagnation and inspire political turmoil in the United States.” Not only does this introduction inform the reader of the consequences of the Vietnam War, which gives the paper a somber tone throughout. It also displays the way in which nations would back individuals to spread their preferred ideology in the home country of the individual. However, the author fails to acknowledge the fact that the United States engaged in the very same behavior. For instance, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, where Cuban exiles were sent to topple Fidel Castro who had recently gained power, out of fear for the possibility of Castro being a