vietnam war

I found that John Keegan's "World War I" was a fantastic book about the whole of the conflict, and really enjoyed it. Although not the whole theater Ronald Spector's "Eagle against the Sun" was great for covering the Pacific WW2 in pretty much it's entirety. However, my knowledge of the Korean...

I would like to ask everybody to discuss about why usually (always?) people of one nation do not ask for war criminals to be put on trial as war criminals if such war criminals are their own soldiers and the victims citizens of another (poor) country. A country may put their own war criminals on...

Current events hook: Vietnam, US hold first ever defense talks A few comments about the war and subsequent history: Hindsight clarifies that the side we were helping was the bad guys. It might have been an honest mistake, but it is true nonetheless. I mean, these were people who admired...

As above, because i was reading Amazon reviews on Vietnam: http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1WJ7QMYJZYFLS/ref=cm_pdp_rev_more?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview#R1LK67CZEIXX6S Basically, the reviews are saying the US committed genocide throughout the cold war. Is anything he writes...

So why did the french colonialism cause the Vietnam War since Vietnam was a colony of France? Second is it true that France left Vietnam because they needed more troops to keep their other colony Algeria since Algeria was also a colony of France? :mad:

http://www.keystotherain.net/mcsame.mp3

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence Sound eerily familiar? (Hint: Replace "Vietnam" with "Iraq" and "China" with "Iran") I call upon our heroes like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh to tell Americans the truth that the Liberal media doesn't want you to hear!

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=397352 I have read most of Pat Conroys' books, he is a fine writer. Thirty years from now, no graduate from the University of Wisconson will write an essay of this caliber. Why? It is OK to be a pacifist, and OK to object to the war. The...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/The-Vietnam-War-a-nightmare-still-vivid/2005/04/29/1114635749004.html Two million civilians dead, massive trauma for those who survived the war. Was it really worth it?

I think it was due to the use of the military draft, Vietnamization, and because the U.S. used a police-work type strategy rather than an offensive one.

RandFan, since you have doubted my contention that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, I thought that you might be interested in what Robert McNamara had to say, as mentioned here.