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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"South Vietnam"”.
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Communist Perpetrated Terror at the Village Level in South Vietnam
The Vietnamese conflict differed from most wars in that key battles were not necessarily large nor fought by the military. Simultaneously with the military engagements raged an insidious political war which claimed as its victims a number equal to or exceeding the military casualties. To the …
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Defending American Credibility: The U.S. Commitment to the Republic of South Vietnam
… American commitment to defend the Republic of South Vietnam argue that the United States made a vast military and political commitment in an area of little apparent geopolitical importance – an area whose political destiny would not drastically alter the overall balance of power in the bipolar …
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The Chemical and Physical Properties of The Alluvial Soils of The Mekong-Donnai Delta in South Vietnam
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:12:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6711903.pdf: 9975248 bytes, checksum: 7a3c75ad9da2b22d1ffc64cb8cdc7ee0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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"Fighting the Wrong War": Radical Pacifists and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, 1962-1964
The Vietnam antiwar movement developed in stages that reflected the escalation of American involvement in South Vietnam. Between 1962 and 1964 radical pacifist leaders responded to this escalation by questioning the legitimacy of an American military presence in South Vietnam, identifying the …
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Sir Robert Thompson’s Better War: The British Advisory Mission and the South Vietnamese Strategic Hamlet Program, 1961-1963
… between the British Advisory Mission to South Vietnam (BRIAM) and the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem and his American advisors. By studying BRIAM’s efforts—and those of its leader, Sir Robert Thompson—this thesis argues that many of the tactics Thompson advocated and Diem …
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The Composition Levels of Selected Trace Elements in Soils From The Major Rice-Producing Regions of Thailand and South Vietnam and Some Factors Related to The Abundance of These Elements
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T00:18:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7514159.pdf: 8919733 bytes, checksum: 01910e3d473b552f3e0d232013f0fd19 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Phantom Chase, The Novel
… in these characters' lives in Hawaii and South Vietnam and the end of 1967. The submitted thesis develops two plot lines: 1. A fictional re-telling of the rationale for and creation of the C.I.A.'s Phoenix program in late 1967. 2. A fictional re-counting of events leading to a disastrously …
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First War Syndrome : military culture, professionalization, and counterinsurgency doctrine
… United Kingdom in counterinsurgency in Kenya, South Vietnam, and Iraq are used to test four competing hypotheses on the origin and development of military doctrine. The four hypotheses are doctrine as rational response to environment, doctrine as product of civilian intervention, doctrine as …
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Selling "Operation Passage to Freedom": Dr. Thomas Dooley and the Religious Overtones of Early American Involvement in Vietnam
Vietnam was partitioned at the 17th parallel on 21 July 1954 with the signing of the Geneva Accords. During the following three hundred days, between 600,000 and one million Vietnamese civilians traveled from North Vietnam to South Vietnam. Three hundred thousand of these individuals were …
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United States Intervention in Vietnam: A Critical Evaluation of Policy and Decisionmaking
The United States intervened in South Vietnam in an attempt to prevent formation of a communist state there. The intervention was a failure; the country came under communist control. This thesis describes and analyzes the goals and policies of American intervention during the period 1950 through …
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The Forgotten Army: The Republic of Korea Forces’ Conduct in the Vietnam War, 1965 – 1973
South Korean participation in the Vietnam War (1964-1973) is like the United States’ endeavors in the Korean War (1950-1953), namely both became soon-forgotten wars. Based on bilingual research in the U.S. and South Korea, this dissertation attempts to shed new light on the South Korean “forgotten …
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Stop Talking about Sorrow: Nixon’s Communications Strategy after Lam Son 719
… Nixon. The American people were tired of the Vietnam War, with many still recovering from the violent anti-war protests of 1970. Congress had just passed an amendment prohibiting U.S. ground troops from operating outside of the borders of South Vietnam. Both the public and secret negotiations …
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The shield of Asia : how deterrence and domestic politics shaped U.S. China policy, 1949-1969
… and particularly its policy toward China and South Vietnam, the Johnson administration deployed what I call the “shield thesis.” A companion to the domino theory, the shield thesis argued that the U.S. military deterrent in the region, directed at the People’s Republic of China, allowed the …
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To the brink of empire : Rusk, Kissinger and the transformation of American foreign policy
… committed the United States to the ground war in Vietnam. This thesis argues that the 1965 decision marks a turning point in American foreign policy by creating a near Machiavellian Moment for the United States characterised by the question of Republic or Empire? To understand how the …
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The massacre at My Khe 4: a different story.
… to a sub-hamlet in the village of Son My in South Vietnam. According to the Vietnamese, American soldiers killed over ninety civilians there on 16 March 1968, the day that, less than two miles away, another unit was massacring the inhabitants of My Lai 4. The Americans did not respond to …
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The Ford administration, Angola and the perception of Post-Vietnam US credibility, 1974-1976
… loss of US credibility after the collapse of Vietnam, with a focus on the role of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the formulation, implementation and subsequent defence of US Angolan policy. By examining the immediate post-Vietnam period, this thesis shows that Vietnam had a significant …
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The military draft and the all-volunteer force: a case study of a shift in public policy
… 1965, when the United States' combat role in South Vietnam escalated sharply, and 1973, the year of American withdrawal from the war and the last Selective Service System draft call. A brief history of the military manpower policy of the United States is outlined in order to set the case study …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
… science advising in the late 1950s, the war in Vietnam sorely tested scientists' support for weapons research and government work. Key controversies that elicited substantial ethical debate included the use of chemical defoliants and gases in Vietnam and the participation of the secretive Jason …
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