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...Edward P. Morgan The American war in Vietnam: crime or commemoration? by John Marciano , New York , New York, Monthly Review Press , 2016 , 196 pp., ISBN 9781583675885 , paperback The Vietnam war: a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick , by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick...

... during the Cold War, focusing heuristically on the case of the US war in Vietnam. Particularly developing a Habermasian reading of these phenomena, the essay argues that, despite elite management and “steering” strategies, “subsystemic imperatives” are never completely “uncoupled” from the “cultural...

...Carl Boggs llilNew Political Science, Volume 26, Number 3, September 2004 Carfax Publishing Taylor & Francis Group REVIEW ESSAY Vietnam, McNamara, and the Fog of History Errol Morris, Director, The Fog of War, Produced by: @radical media Inc., Globe Department Store, and SenArt Films, 2003...

... and less satisfying reality. The era of the great social movements and the current period serve as bookends, the Vietnam War and the invasion of Iraq framing a discipline's refusal to serve the public good by bringing its expertise to bear on the political education of the citizenry. We all know how...

... as an ensemble, it would be difficult to find a warrior hero better exemplifying the virtues of American military action than Sylvester Stallone, superseding even the legendary John Wayne. This motif converges with yet another—transforming Vietnam into another “good war”—that has shaped an entire cycle...

... and mind have not only moral but also prudential reasons not to enlist, given the plight of the veterans of the Vietnam and the Gulf Wars. © 2003 Caucus for a New Political Science 2003 New Political Science, Volume 25, Number 1, 2003 {iii Carfax Publishing Taylor & Francis Group Be All That You Can...

... of civilian “blowback” that originates with heightened US military adventurism in the postwar period. During this time most of the victims of state-sanctioned military violence have been yellow people (Korean War, Vietnam War) and the essay connects this with the overrepresentation of Asian Americans who have...

...Adam Hilton Abstract By the late 1960s, the Democratic Party had fallen into crisis. Vietnam, urban riots, and declining electoral fortunes marked a crossroads in the history of the party, raising questions about the meaning and trajectory of postwar liberalism. Amid the political chaos...

.... Despite having their own challenges, both forms of politics were ways of channeling indignation from colonial violence toward productive, dignifying ends. Introduction One afternoon in 1930, a landlord arrived at the home of ten-year-old Nguyen Thi Dinh in her poor village in the Mekong area of Vietnam...

... wars have become part of contemporary American mythology, they have become sacrosanct in the realm of popular culture. Other conflicts, most notably the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf War, at the outset inspired films embracing the righteous aims of the conflict, but over time they produced...

... following Hiroshima, "we are all, in the framework of this system, survivors. Not even the instinct of self-preservation is fundamental: it is a social tolerance or a social imperative." "When the system requires it," as at H-Hour: D-Day 1944 or comparable moments in Korea, Vietnam, and in the future...

... received more attention from the past two administrations, and in no other part of the world has the possibility of the deployment of U. S. troops been so persistent. As the war in Vietnam demonstrated the futility of the United States government's waging of a prolonged war in the Third World without...

... might be-all in the name of ensuring that the Soviet Union had its own Vietnam-like experience. The American public was led to believe that the destabilization of the Soviet Union was worth the 1.8 million Afghan casualties, 2.6 million refugees, and 10 million land mines left in the ground...

..., the most intense escalation of the Vietnam War (Ehrenberg 1999 : 217–20). Third, as they competed unsuccessfully to win elections for APSA offices into the 1970s, members of the Caucus developed an enduring oppositional space with new publications to showcase alternative approaches to political analysis...

... the role of the military in Third World countries. What he omitted to disclose on this occasion was the extent to which British counterinsurgency practices affected US policy in Vietnam; and more specifically, how British policies of resettlement in Malaya were transferred to Vietnam in the US backed...

... America, to the wars and military interventions in the Philippines, Latin America, Vietnam, Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan); the large and growing literature on human rights and US policy; and the growing critical literature on US foreign policy in general. Boggs asks readers...

... (personal interview, April 19, 2004). Patriotism in the United States 287 March 23/ six members of the local VFW, veterans of the Vietnam War, made their way into the 44 Howard Street house in an attempt to verbally and physically intimidate the students into removing the flag. While the men stomped through...

... backgrounds joined the fight for civil rights, while other entertainers took up the anti-Vietnam War cause. The interplay between grassroots activists and entertainment celebrities was reflected in the support entertainers gave to mass movements. This was witnessed during the Vietnam War era. Even before...

... leaders have enjoyed a great measure of autonomy, latitude, and credibility even in the face of costly failures such as Vietnam. An urgent question for the fate of the planet is whether US ruling elites can for long sustain their drive toward global domination-that is, whether they can prevail in an arena...

... amounts of radiation beneath and above ground. It carried out extensive chemical and biological warfare in Vietnam (thanks to products manufactured by Monsanto, Dow, and DuPont), dumping millions of tons of Agent Orange, napalm, white phosphorous, and other deadly toxins into a fragile ecosystem, where...