Vietnam

The keyword Vietnam is tagged in the following 4 articles.

Examing the Social Impacts of French Education Reforms in Tonkin, Indochina (1906-1938)

April 16, 2012 - 6580 words | Anthropology » French Indochina

Education reforms were among the most invested projects of French Indochina. The colonial government introduced them for several purposes, including to train a class of elites to serve in local administrative bureaus and to penetrate and “conquer” indigenous... Read Article »

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French Indochina Education Vietnam Assimilation Policy

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: Postmodern Fiction for a Postmodern War

August 31, 2011 - 3585 words | English » Vietnam

In the western history of human existence the event, idea, and act of war stands totemic in the landscape. Borders both physical and mental have been defined by its threat and execution, and its aura hangs heavily over the last century as the bloodiest in the entire... Read Article »

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Vietnam War Fiction Postmodernism Trauma Studies Tim O'Brien

Comparing Counterinsurgency Tactics in Iraq and Vietnam

May 23, 2011 - 3751 words | History » Military History

Insurgency is not a new phenomenon for the United States, in fact by definition the American's built an insurgency during the Revolutionary War. But it was not until the Vietnam War that America faced an insurgency that it could not defeat. Because of the infamy of... Read Article »

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Military History Counterinsurgency Iraq Vietnam

The American Military and the Press: From Vietnam to Iraq

October 22, 2009 - 1947 words | Political Science » The Media

“News is something someone wants suppressed,” British newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe once said. “Everything else is just advertising.” This point is especially true in war journalism where every story, be it a heart-warming depiction of troops... Read Article »

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Iraq Vietnam Freedom Of the Press Military Censorship The Media