Associated Press combat correspondent reports on how American G.I.'s live, fight and die in South Vietnam
Organization and provision of the N.L.F., its cultural and historical roles, and political and strategical aims
Readings and discussion questions present conflicting points of view concerning American involvement in Vietnam Content : The US must stop communist expansion (1954) / John Foster Dulles The US must be cautious (1954) / John F. Kennedy The US must maintain its commitments (1965) / Don R. Larson & Arthur Larson Vietnamization will shorten the war (1969) / Richard M. Nixon Vietnamization …
Timothy Lomperis argues that the lessons of American involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by itself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven other cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during the Cold War era: China, Indochina, Greece, the Philippines, Malaya, Cambodia, and Laos. Lomperis maintains that popular ins…