https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012 en-us 2017-01-18 18:06:54 UTC 2023-02-26 14:33:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/147903962 From: http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/who-lost-vietnam-soldiers-civilians-and-us-military-strategy

Scholars have long argued about why the United States pursued a conventional military strategy during the Vietnam War rather than one based on counterinsurgency principles. A recent article in this journal by Jonathan Caverley presents a bold challenge to the historiography of the Vietnam War.  Rejecting the standard historical focus on the organizational culture and strategic perspective of Gen. William Westmoreland and the U.S. Army, Caverley argues that the roots of the United States' strategy in Vietnam can be traced to the direct influence of civilian leaders and the strong constraint of public opinion. Caverley's main arguments are a welcome challenge to the established wisdom, but they are not supported by the historical evidence. Civilian officials in Lyndon Johnson's administration did not instruct the military on how to fight the ground war within the borders of South Vietnam.  Westmoreland did not want to change U.S. military strategy to focus on pacification at the expense of search and destroy tactics and the main force war.  Both U.S. civilian and military officials were convinced that counterinsurgency was a South Vietnamese responsibility that U.S. ground forces should not assume.  Public opinion was a weak, rather than a strong, constraint on the specific decisions of the Johnson administration during the pivotal years of the Vietnam War. Democracies may not be able to win certain counterinsurgency conflicts, but the primary source of this failure is not a civilian aversion to casualties.]]> 2017-01-18 18:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/147903962 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/147905497 https://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/teaching/articles/McAdam_Su_ASR_2002.pdf]]> 2017-01-18 18:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/147905497 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/147908412 #1: http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history/videos
#2: http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history/videos/nixon-addresses-silent-majority?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false]]> 2017-01-18 18:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/147908412 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/147909822 Current:
#1: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/opinion/as-the-earth-shook-they-stood-firm.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FVietnam%20War&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
#2:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/vietnam-the-war-that-killed-trust.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FVietnam%20War&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=collection
Written During the War:
#3: http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/article-summary/eisenhower_on_vietnam#.WIEBvBMrLnA
#4:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/30/from-the-archives-the-end-in-vietnam]]> 2017-01-18 18:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/147909822 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580263 I think that this cartoon means that the US is unnecessarily destroying Vietnam.]]> 2017-01-22 17:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580263 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580378 This cartoon is saying that the US is in too deep with the war and should get out of Vietnam.]]> 2017-01-22 17:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580378 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580585 https://usastruck.com/]]> 2017-01-22 17:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580585 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580841 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpWEv9Q0XQ4&list=PL-4oZzaSFFKhOpeAoXP8pA2a_kXP0osmq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ar27ChFKqA&list=PL-4oZzaSFFKhOpeAoXP8pA2a_kXP0osmq&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niRvWN-DodY&list=PL-4oZzaSFFKhOpeAoXP8pA2a_kXP0osmq&index=18]]> 2017-01-22 17:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580841 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580937 dust-off: medical evacuation by helicopter 
eagle flights: large air assault of helicopters 
flaky: to be in a state of mental disarray 
Freedom Bird: the plane that took soldiers from Vietnam back to the World
gook: derogatory term for an Asian; derived from Korean slang for "person" 
grunt: infantryman. ]]> 2017-01-22 17:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148580937 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148603420 http://ew.com/article/1990/02/23/vietnam-war-pop-culture/]]> 2017-01-23 00:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148603420 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604260 2017-01-23 00:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604260 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604303 2017-01-23 00:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604303 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604315 2017-01-23 00:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604315 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604331 2017-01-23 00:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604331 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604401 2017-01-23 00:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604401 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604636 2017-01-23 00:25:59 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604636 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604657 2017-01-23 00:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604657 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604754 2017-01-23 00:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604754 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604867 2017-01-23 00:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604867 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604890 2017-01-23 00:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604890 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604901 2017-01-23 00:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604901 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604913 2017-01-23 00:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148604913 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148605020 https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media/hpsych.html]]> 2017-01-23 00:34:15 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148605020 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148605743 http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1020]]> 2017-01-23 00:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148605743 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148605831 2017-01-23 00:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148605831 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148605936 2017-01-23 00:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148605936 2018jahull https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148606054 http://www.47ipsd.us/47vnwar.htm
Explanation: President Lyndon B. Johnson wants to keep the American promise to South Vietnam to help protect it.]]> 2017-01-23 00:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/2018jahull/hdvgqr7fc012/wish/148606054