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Reflections Of The Vietnam Strategy On Resistance To French And Us Occupation
Published 2024-02-01“… The Vietnam War against France began with the French colonization of Vietnam for nearly a century. …”
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“First they bomb as much as they please, then they film”: The Politics of War Ruins in Two Vietnam War Documentaries
Published 2022-05-01“…In 1965, the Department of Defense released Why Viet-Nam, a propaganda documentary aimed at justifying the involvement of US troops in Vietnam. The film opens on images of (unidentified) destruction and ruins as the voice of President Johnson begins to answer the question raised by its title. …”
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The Small Wars Doctrine of the US Marine Corps and Colonial Experience of the European Powers
Published 2023-12-01“…It is noted that conflicting imperatives of asymmetric and conventional threats to US national security urge researchers and practitioners to revisit after a post-Vietnam period of neglect the approaches of colonial empires to the conduct of small wars and to adapt them to modern conditions. …”
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A ‘Triangular’ Relationship with the Great Powers: The Case of the post-Cold War Vietnam Balancing versus China and the USA
Published 2019-12-01“…The present article attempts to analyze the case of Vietnam as a middle power caught in-between two potentially inimical greater states, viz. the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China, in the aftermath of the Cold War, with a view to exploring the degree to which the former would have managed to maintain its relative independence in respect of each of the contending powers while drawing benefits from the relations with either of them.Making use of the multiple sources covering the presentday relations of Vietnam with both China and the U.S., the author argues that even though Vietnam had been confronted with several critical junctures wherein it may be motivated to fully align with either of the two powers, the country’s leadership would maintain a relatively neutral position while participating in the structures of interdependence and integration involving both great powers under consideration. …”
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A geopolitics of mud construction: Self-help and the CINVA-Ram machine in Ghana and South Vietnam during the Cold War
Published 2023-12-01“…After detailing the history of the CINVA-Ram machine, the pressing machine to produce rammed-earth blocks developed at the Center and later exported to America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, the article explores its deployment in two different fronts of the Cold War: Ghana and South Vietnam. As highlighted in the conclusions, the significance of CINVA-Ram use in these contexts is manyfold. …”
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Indo-Chinese Initiatives by Henry Kissinger
Published 2020-04-01“…The diplomat used the events that took place in Indochina as one of the elements for reformatting the world order which was placed after World War II. H.Kissinger’s strategy consisted in involving China and creates a geopolitical triangle instead of US and USSR bipolar relations. …”
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Tell Me Lies (Peter Brook, 1968) or How I Learned to Start Worrying about Vietnam
“…As its subtitle “A film about London” indicates, the film is not so much about Vietnam as about the impact that news and images of a war can have on the lives of ordinary people in a country far removed yet indirectly involved in the conflict. …”
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The origins of the Reagan Doctrine Wars in Angola, Central America, and Afghanistan
Published 2016“…Despite declaring these peripheral wars to be central to the Cold War, avoiding the costs of involving U.S forces directly in Third World conflicts and minimizing the risks of escalation with the Soviet Union were overriding political and military imperatives.…”
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Justice intuitions and popular support for war: a theory of presidential retributive rhetoric
Published 2021“…The expectations and implications of the theory are explored through qualitative analysis of three case studies involving military intervention by the United States: entry into World War II following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin crisis precipitating the first official use of military force against North Vietnam, and the 1991 Persian Gulf War following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.…”
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A Transregional Approach in US Policy in the Asia Pacific Region in the Early 1980s
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Politics of security: British and West German protest movements and the early Cold War 1945-1970
Published 2013“…The book is the first to capture in a transnational fashion what activists did on the marches and what it meant to them and to others. The book thus reminds us that threats are not merely out there, but that they need to be created in a political process that involves struggles for power and contestation.…”
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Youth Movement in the United States : Generational Research on Youth Political and Cultural Movement against the United States Invasion in Vietnam in 1960s
Published 2012“…Youth tend to reject the US involvement in Vietnam War because of there is a gap between the ideals they have learned from older generations and the realities they experienced.The sixties were the age of youth, as 70 million children from the post war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. …”
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Is It Time for the Beaver to Hop off the Eagle?
Published 2018-05-01“…With the exception of a few controversial issues like US involvement in Vietnam (1955) and Iraq (2003) as well as Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD), Ottawa has been Washington’s closest ally since 1945. …”
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Chemical characterization, source apportionment, and health risk assessment nexus of PM2.5-bound major heavy metals in Bien Hoa city, southern Vietnam
Published 2023-01-01“…Dioxins, as residue from the U.S. - Vietnam war, are also a major concern to the city. …”
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Combat injury profiles among U.S. military personnel who survived serious wounds in Iraq and Afghanistan: A latent class analysis.
Published 2022-01-01“…<h4>Background</h4>The U.S. military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan had the most casualties since Vietnam with more than 53,000 wounded in action. …”
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Diasporas and Armed Conflicts: beyond Being “Third Party”
Published 2021-06-01“…This unit played an essential role in the Civil War in Laos, as it managed to restrain the onslaught of the superior forces of the Patet Lao Front and troops from North Vietnam. …”
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