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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…
Laos is a major arena of international confrontation despite the Geneva Accords of 1962. Yet there is a dearth of published material on Laos, and the crucial issue of North Vietnam's role in that country has hardly been examined. This important study illuminates the North Vietnamese-Pathet Lao partnership, an understanding of which is so critical to the search for peace in Indochina. The author…
More than two decades after the end of the Vietnam War, America's wounds have yet to heal; the war's divisiveness continues. Yet today, even the most hard-line hawks and doves share the conviction that, for better or worse, the antiwar movement played an important role in turning American opinion against the war, thereby limiting and ultimately ending U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia. I…
The story of the Nazis, their extravagant spectacles, and their extreme cruelty
By 1990 Vietnam had introduced many radical market reforms before finding itself overtaken and its leadership apparently paralysed by the events in Eastern Europe and the USSR. This examines the serious political and economic issues facing the ageing leaders at the party congress of May 1992. "Published in North America for the Royal Institute of International Affairs." Originally published…
East Timor is the largest and longest overseas deployment of New Zealand troops since Malaya/Borneo. Using personal letters, extracts from diaries, interviews and many photographs, this text aims to explain why the New Zealand defence force personnel were sent to East Timor and what they did when they went there.