Viet Cong

General Truong had a sense of unease as the Tet holiday began on 29 January. Although his intelligence staff did not think the enemy had the capability or the intention of launching a major attack against Hue, the general was painfully aware of the city’s vulnerabilities. His division was tough and battle tested but stretched uncomfortably thin throughout I Corps. Two battalions of the 3d Infantry Regiment were west of Hue, one on a routine sweep mission and the other undergoing training at…

The South Vietnamese were not pleased about U.S. soldiers being in their country, on an everyday basis, thousands of South Vietnamese merged the Viet Cong, so trust became a main issue Among the American soldiers, and they had no clue who to shoot and who to help. The longest America war, and the first one they lost, thus concludes. During 15 years of military involvement, “over 2 million Americans…

In 1975, big events have unfolded, from Microsoft, surrendering of Saigon, to the Watergate scandal. Each event had really big significance during that time. Which still has a strong impact in our society. The most important event during this 1975 is the creation of Microsoft. Which has a huge impact it had on the world.. The Watergate scandal was a robbery, but not an ordinary. The robbery took place in Washington D.C. in a building called Watergate. Watergate was the headquarters for the…

Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. The next year the Viet minh is founded a group that tries to get Vietnam’s independence. In March 9th, 1945 Japan takes the final control away from the French in Indo China. They place Bao Dai in power of Vietnam making it seem like they were an independent state. That same year Japan surrenders thanks to the two nuclear bombs dropped on them. On August 18th, 1945 Ho Chi Minh…

Nixon. In the aftermath of Tet, many Americans in Vietnam, includ¬ing Vann, saw that the enemy had taken a terrific beating. The Viet Cong had shown himself, had been targeted by the allies, and had lost many thousands of his followers, the most important of whom were the more senior troop, some of whom had been in place since the mid 1950's. Additionally, with the Viet Cong weakened and the American public growing extremely sick of anything associated with Vietnam, the Nixon Administration…

Vietnamese from the North, but to also contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. On one side of the conflict, you have South Vietnam and the United States as its only ally. On the other side of the arena, North Vietnam is fighting alongside the Viet Cong guerilla force. This paper will analyze the Vietnam War using two different international relations theories: Realism and Economic Structuralism.…

too far. Having restraint can show that someone is mature, and therefore is “manly”. Compare this to how Caputo acted in the book, particularly toward the end. Caputo orders his men to capture men “suspected” of being Viet Cong. In reality, he wanted his men to kill the two “Viet Cong” boys as revenge for a fellow soldier's death. While not explicit, Caputo’s order was heavily implied. As horrible as the experience was, Caputo grew as a person from this experience. He struggled with the madness…

The Vietnam War or The Second Indochina War was a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam along with the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States (Spector, 2016). At the heart of the conflict was the desire of North Vietnam, which had defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954, to unify…

underestimated, and the sanity of the soldiers can’t maintain forever. The My Lai Massacre, that is shown in source D, was a result of American soldiers “butchering” the village of My Lai. The Viet Cong are able to hide in plain sight, the soldiers came into the town to kill every citizen, in hopes they would kill some Viet Cong Members. The defendant is morally uncomfortable with the idea of killing an enemy soldier, and the idea of murdering citizens is more than the mind can fathom. The…

What began with individuals opposing the war from 1965 to 1967, developed into a collective dissent of GI’s opposing the war from 1968 to the end of the war in 1973 (Handout, GI Revolts Against the War in Vietnam, 1965-1973). Several demonstrations, including pray-ins, rallies, seizing of stockades, and rebellions occurred on American soil as well as overseas to express the GI’s defiance against the war as being unjust, when compared to the standards of the Nuremberg Principals of 1956, which…