Mythologizing the Vietnam War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mythologizing the Vietnam War write by Jennifer Good. This book was released on 2014-10-16. Mythologizing the Vietnam War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting and in the representation of conflict in popular culture and historical memory. However, as contemporary culture tries to come to terms with the events and their political, psychological and cultural implications, the ‘real’ Vietnam War has been appropriated and changed into a set of mythologies which implicate American and Vietnamese national identities specifically, and ideas of modern conflict more broadly, particularly in shaping the mediation of the twenty-first century ‘War on Terror’. This collection of interdisciplinary critical essays explores the cultural legacies of the US involvement in South East Asia, considering this process of ‘mythologising’ through the lenses of visual media and tracing the war’s evolution from contemporary reportage to subsequent interpretation and consumption. It reassesses the role of visual media in covering and remembering the war, its memorialisation, mediation and memory. The origin of this collection of essays was an international conference, titled “Considering Vietnam”, held at the Imperial War Museum, London, in February 2012, co-organised by the museum and the University of the Arts London Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC).
American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam
American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam write by John Hellmann. This book was released on 1989-11-17. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam
The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam
The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam write by Dale Walton. This book was released on 2013-01-11. The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless of how the United States conducted its military- political effort in Indochina.
The Myths of Tet
The Myths of Tet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myths of Tet write by Edwin Moïse. This book was released on 2017-11-21. The Myths of Tet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Late in 1967, American officials and military officers pushed an optimistic view of the Vietnam War. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) said that the war was being won, and that Communist strength in South Vietnam was declining. Then came the Tet Offensive of 1968. In its broadest and simplest outline, the conventional wisdom about the offensive—that it was a military defeat for the Communists but a political victory for them, because it undermined support for the war in the United States—is correct. But much that has been written about the Tet Offensive has been misleading. Edwin Moïse shows that the Communist campaign shocked the American public not because the American media exaggerated its success, but because it was a bigger campaign—larger in scale, much longer in duration, and resulting in more American casualties—than most authors have acknowledged. MACV, led by General William Westmoreland, issued regular estimates of enemy strength in South Vietnam. During 1967, intelligence officers at MACV were increasingly required to issue low estimates to show that the war was being won. Their underestimation of enemy strength was most extreme in January 1968, just before the Tet Offensive. The weak Communist force depicted in MACV estimates would not have been capable of sustaining heavy combat month after month like they did in 1968. Moïse also explores the errors of the Communists, using Vietnamese sources. The first wave of Communist attacks, at the end of January 1968, showed gross failures of coordination. Communist policy throughout 1968 and into 1969 was wildly overoptimistic, setting impossible goals for their forces. While acknowledging the journalists and historians who have correctly reported various parts of the story, Moïse points out widespread misunderstandings in regard to the strength of Communist forces in Vietnam, the disputes among American intelligence agencies over estimates of enemy strength, the actual pattern of combat in 1968, the effects of Tet on American policy, and the American media’s coverage of all these issues.
Myths and Realities
Myths and Realities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myths and Realities write by Louis Harris and Associates. This book was released on 1980. Myths and Realities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
