Vietnam War

during the Vietnam War. Within this war, America faced not only military challenges, but challenges towards their issued foreign policies as well. Furthermore, America’s excuse, of a communism threat, to enter the war not only appeared ambiguous but rather contradictory. By analysing the causes and course of the Vietnam war throughout 1954-1975, the following essay will dissect the difficulties America faced as well as their cloudy morality throughout their intervention. The War of Vietnam can…

debated by Americans across the country. But by mid 1900’s, the arise of the Vietnam war and the decision by the US government to aid South Vietnam and stop communist North Vietnam created a controversy in our country like we have never seen before. One difference between this conflict and any other was the crucial role the the media played in turning the public’s opinion against the war. This was also the first war where media had complete freedom of the press which allowed them to publish…

Vietnam War Imagine a place so full of hatred, with so much war that the thought of a quick death is blissful; now imagine returning home from that and having every person you once knew think of you as a monster. The Vietnam war started in 1955, because of the communist aggression in that region. The very reason why the United States entered the war was to stop the unification of Vietnam under communist control; two years later this is exactly what happened. President Nixon enacted…

While both the Korean War (1950-53) and the Vietnam War (1962-75) played significant roles in the duration of the Cold War, the Korean War’s effects contributed to the causes and early development of the Cold War, whereas the Vietnam War’s role was more concerned with the latter stages of the development and the path towards the end of the Cold War. The Korean War and the Vietnam War were similar in the sense that they both directly influenced the Cold War. With both of these regions being…

Vietnam, a Necessary War? The Vietnam War is very controversial in the sense that people disagree over whether America should have entered or not. Two people who capture the feelings of both sides well are Michael Lind who wrote “A Necessary War” and Fredrik Logevall who wrote “An Avoidable Catastrophe”. Both of these works represent either side of the controversy of entering the war. Lind appeal to the audience through rebuttals and perspective of the time, while Logevall seems to just knock…

An analysis of the Tet Offensive reveals stubborn mind sets can lead to strategic intelligence blunders. Many historians and military strategists know the Tet Offensive as the bloodiest time in the Vietnam conflict. Many intelligence professionals could point to certain actions which could have turned the tide of the battle or solidified Allied safety. Setting aside the Status Quo mind set and listening to proven doctrinal concepts fit to adapting to dynamic battlefields could have saved many…

defeat of the war (Mack, 1975: 189). Domestic constrain in a free society is more influential than other kinds of polity like totalitarian or dictatorship (Mack, 1975: 193). In democracy, the free media can affect the attitude of the population towards the war. The New York reported on the My Lai massacre in1968 shocked the American people. American soldiers on a “search and destroy” mission caused civilian causality. People in democracy are likely to question the morality of the war. The…

The statement that The Vietnam War was unwinnable is true to some extent. The Vietnam War was a 20 year long war which lasted from 1955 to 1975. There were multiple factors that attributed to the conflict being unwinnable, these include the nature of the Vietcong fighters, the strong protest movement and the role of the media in shaping public opinion. A factor that made the Vietnam War unwinnable was the nature of the Vietcong fighters. The American and Australian forces found it difficult to…

States’ effort in the Vietnam War, it resulted in huge controversy and detrimental losses for the indigenous people. Bombings that would later escalate into an invasion served to destroy enemy sanctuaries hiding in Cambodia. In the tedious and fruitless conflict, Nixon described the invasion as “the most successful military operation of the entire Vietnam War" (qtd. In History.com Staff). Using the domino theory to justify the conflict in Vietnam, much like in Korea, The U.S. waged war in…

The Vietnam War is often referred to as the “first television war”. The media had shown no filter to the American eye of the reality of a foreign conflict. Detached from the government's optimistic deception and uncensored on their televisions at home. Most would agree that media was responsible for causing a shift in public opinion from one supporter to another. In theory, it also explains how the media affected the outcome of the war. Despite all other conflicts during the time, there were…