Vietnam War

of 10 during war whichever side has the best strategy will most likely win the war. In battle, in order to get the upper hand on the enemy, weapons and fighting tactics are a major key to success. While this does not guarantee victory, it at least provides soldiers with a more positive outcome. For example, in the Vietnam War, the United States had access to state of the art weaponry and decent strategists, yet fell short of their goal of preventing the spread on communism in Vietnam. It is…

The reality of war entered the living rooms of U.S. citizens for the very first time in history throughout the Vietnam War. The general public watched villages being destroyed, Vietnamese kids burning to death, and american body baggages being sent home. Although initial coverage usually supported U.S involvement within the war, newscast dramatically modified the war once the Tet Offensive happened. The anti-war movement gained increasing media attention. Coverage of the war and its ensuing…

The Vietnam War’s protests are some of the most well-known in United States history. This is because of the near-omnipresence in public opinion against the war, with support coming from women’s peace groups, clergy, black civil rights groups, youth organizations, and many others. However, the interesting question is why was so much of the public vocally against this war? In other words, what made the war in Vietnam worse than other wars the United States engaged in? This research paper seeks to…

Rules of engagement for the Unites States in the Vietnam War were a framework put into place by military authorities to define the limitations and circumstances that combat will be initiated or continue with enemy forces. (Georgia Tech College , n.d.). The rules are put into place to be compliant with international law for conducting war, minimize friendly fire accidents, and protect civilians. All of these regulations also had political motivation and each level of rank within the army from…

was strategy of ‘search and destroy’ as a reason for the USA’s lack of success in the Vietnam War? The United States lost the Vietnam War due to many reasons for example; team-killing. The American hi-tech tactics consistently eliminated the wrong people and weakened their own troops; however the Viet Cong 's guerrilla tactics were relevant to the nature of the combat. The Americans were trying to supply a war 8,000 miles from America but the Viet Cong were equipped with firearms and…

A sincere group of brothers, the Charlie Company was one of the latest combat infantry companies in the Vietnam War to be recruited, trained and sent to fight all together. The Vietnam conflict was a war whose backgrounds many did not understand and that resulted in the people questioning the guidelines of a government they had always depended on on. During the war in Vietnam, soldiers faced severe life-threatening situations, including fatigue, starvation, disease, and of course, having to see…

are created to compensate for the memory that had once happened. It can bring smiles or tears, depending on each individual. In this case, many photos that were taken during the Vietnam War brought more tears than they did smiles. Not only that but these photos have impacted the way people look at both America and Vietnam. Although different individuals may have different thoughts on these pictures, there are common themes that can be identified in all of them and they are…

The people in the US opposed the war for many reasons. In the following essay I am going to talk about three representations that show opposition to the Vietnam War and explain which one I think is best. I am going to analyse the representations using the criteria of objectivity, completeness and accuracy. Representation 1 was written last year in 2015 by a website called factualworld.com which, since then, has been deleted so it is debatable on whether the source is reliable and the…

“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” This is a quote from William Tecumseh Sherman,civil war soldier, that flew through the ranks and became general. A general of war, stating that war is cruel nothing else. William experiencing war must have experienced PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder . If war was cruel in the civil war, the past wars have been doing some work on our loyal soldiers. Take the example of the Vietnam war…

The Vietnam War was One of the biggest events in Forrest Gump's life. Being one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history, it helped shape the identity of Modern liberalism in America. For Forest, however, the war matters because of the people: Bubba, Lt. Dan, and the greater part of the men he saved or saw perish. Another…