A War Too Long
Author | : John Schlight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Schlight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.) |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160873225 |
Air Force Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Discusses the United States Air Force's involvement in the Vietnam Conflict.
Author | : Jeffrey Race |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520023611 |
This landmark study of the Vietnamese conflict, examined through the lens of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements in the rural province of Long An up until American intervention in the area, offers a human, balanced, penetrating account of war. Two new forewords by Robert K. Brigham of Vassar College and Jeffrey Record of the Air War College explore the book's enduring influence. A new end chapter offers previously unpublished scholarship on the conflict.
Author | : John Schlight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781410214232 |
The Air Force instinctively disliked the slow, gradual way the United States prosecuted its war against the Vietnamese communists. While Americans undoubtedly delayed a communist victory in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia long enough to spare Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries a similar fate, the American public grew very tired of this war years before its dismal conclusion. Due to questionable political policies and decision-making, only sporadic and relatively ineffective use had been made of air power's ability to bring great force to bear quickly and decisively. The United States and its Air Force experienced a decade of frustration made more painful by the losses of its personnel killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. Fighting resolutely and courageously, the Air Force played the decisive role in forcing North Vietnam to the peace table in 1973. The demands of the Vietnam War forced new developments such as laser-guided-bombs that would eventually radically transform the shape of air warfare.
Author | : Xiaoming Zhang |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2015-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469621258 |
The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities, and catalyzed a decadelong conflict. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaoming Zhang traces the roots of the conflict to the historic relationship between the peoples of China and Vietnam, the ongoing Sino-Soviet dispute, and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's desire to modernize his country. Deng's perceptions of the Soviet Union, combined with his plans for economic and military reform, shaped China's strategic vision. Drawing on newly declassified Chinese documents and memoirs by senior military and civilian figures, Zhang takes readers into the heart of Beijing's decision-making process and illustrates the war's importance for understanding the modern Chinese military, as well as China's role in the Asian-Pacific world today.
Author | : Warren Wilkins |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781591149613 |
In 1965, despite pronounced disadvantages in firepower and mobility, the Communist Vietnamese endeavored to crush South Vietnam and expel the American military with a strategy for a quick and decisive victory predicated not on guerrilla but big-unit war. Warren Wilkins chronicles the formation, development, and participation of the Viet Cong in the opening phase of the big-unit war and shows how the failure of that strategy profoundly influenced the decision to launch the Tet Offensive. Unlike most books on the war, this one provides an authentic account from the Communist perspective, wi ...
Author | : Long T. Bui |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479817066 |
The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of Vietnamese refugees In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism, marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Although this former ally of the United States has vanished from the world map, Long T. Bui maintains that its memory endures for refugees with a strong attachment to this ghost country. Blending ethnography with oral history, archival research, and cultural analysis, Returns of War considers Returns of War argues that Vietnamization--as Richard Nixon termed it in 1969--and the end of South Vietnam signals more than an example of flawed American military strategy, but a larger allegory of power, providing cover for U.S. imperial losses while denoting the inability of the (South) Vietnamese and other colonized nations to become independent, modern liberal subjects. Bui argues that the collapse of South Vietnam under Vietnamization complicates the already difficult memory of the Vietnam War, pushing for a critical understanding of South Vietnamese agency beyond their status as the war’s ultimate “losers.” Examining the lasting impact of Cold War military policy and culture upon the “Vietnamized” afterlife of war, this book weaves questions of national identity, sovereignty, and self-determination to consider the generative possibilities of theorizing South Vietnam as an incomplete, ongoing search for political and personal freedom.
Author | : John Schlight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : |