How effective were the us tactics of search and destroy and defoliation in the Vietnam war? During the Vietnam War‚ the tactic of Search and destroy was overall - an ineffective tactic to use. Though the tactic of search and destroy did manage to achieve some minor successes‚ the overall outcome achieved the complete opposite of the US government’s goal which was merely to prevent the spread of communism. The reason search and destroy was used was because of many things. The major cause for the
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United States Learned from the Vietnam War The United States made lots of mistakes in Vietnam. It stayed too long in the war‚ it failed to gather intelligence that could have saved lives‚ and we made rash decisions regarding the public’s reaction to us being there. The United States‚ at the most part‚ ignored these lessons as we continued some years later to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. But one mistake we did learn from was the allowance of free media in the war zone‚ and how never to do
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After Nixon announced a new eight point plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam the process began and by 1972 almost all American troop were out. Only 1500 North Vietnam civilians were killed during the entire war but Senator George McGovern lied to NBC and said that it was the most murderous aerial bombardment in the history of the world. In the fall of 1969 the Pentagon revealed that during the Tet offence American soldiers had entered a village at My Lai and massacred all the inhabitants. My Lai
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2014 Stop and Listen to the Music “War‚ what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.” These are the lyrics from the 1969 smash hit titled “War.” Edwin Starr wrote this song in protest to the Vietnam War and it expressed many peoples’ feelings towards the war through a catchy melody. Music can have a profound impact on social politics‚ and can serve to connect people. Many of the songs written in the late 1960s captured the American public’s discontent with the war. Rock music and American social movements
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the anti-war movement‚ one being that it was the reason the Vietnam war ended. On the contrary‚ the movement was more social and cultural than it was political. As a single organization it had little impact‚ but as a whole movement‚ it was able to influence on a broader level the politics in America. Even the Johnson and Nixon administration insisted they would ignore the anti-war efforts yet still‚ they adapted their policies to those who dissented.(456) Those in opposition to the anti-war wave tried
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The Vietnam War established the credibility gap in the 1960s. Debates over the nation’s participation in Southeast Asian conflicts rose while the US‚ a rising world power‚ struggle to contain the spreading communist values of the Soviet Union. As the Civil War stretches through the 1900s‚ presidents of the latter half of 20th century America began inheriting the foreign problem. Looking straight towards US victory‚ Lyndon B. Johnson began taking drastic attempts of ending the war. These efforts
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When Questioned‚ "Why do you not like talking about the war and things that happened back then?" Telly Robbins‚ a Vietnam veteran answered "I don’t want my kids or wife to know of the things I had once did‚ I don’t want them to think of me as a monster. I also do not want to relive things that happened". While he explained his feelings‚ fear and sadness could be heard mixed in with his voice‚ this sadness was egregious‚ even though it was almost ephemeral and could not be noticed to the hoi polloi
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the skull and all their shrinking black light glazed over by death” (Silko 7). True men do not suffer from the ghosts of war. Manliness condones this behavior in soldiers after World War II. In Silko’s Ceremony¸ she analyzes standard of manliness set for the soldiers suffering from PTSD compared to the standards set at the time. Just as in the past‚ the men who suffer from war are not seen as manly. One example‚ stated above‚ is when Tayo observes the execution
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Platoon was a movie of the 1980’s that focused on the Veitnam war. Platoon was written as an anti-war film‚ showing a lot of the negitive aspects of the war. Platoon was a special film because of the 360 degree filming style that shows all angles of the war. The film was written and directed by Oliver Stone‚ who fought in Vietnam. He had a dream to make a movie about the war that is not fictional but how he actual remembered the movie. This movie has a sumwhat hard to fallow plot trying to emulate
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Culture of VIETNAM ORIENTATION Identification. The name Vietnam originated in 1803 when envoys from the newly founded Nguyen dynasty traveled to Beijing to establish diplomatic relations with the Chinese court. The new emperor had chosen the name Nam Viet for his kingdom. The word Viet he derived from the traditional name for the Vietnamese imperial domain and its people in what is now northern and central Vietnam. Nam (south) had been added to acknowledge the expansion of the dynasty’s domain
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