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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Vietnam Era"”.
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The war within: The soldiers’ resistance movement during the Vietnam era
… Soldiers’ Resistance Movement (SRM) during the Vietnam Era is arguably the most important social movement in the history of the American military. Responding to a highly unpopular war, the soldiers of Vietnam began to question their role in what many considered to be a conflict built on lies. …
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Higher Command: An Examination of African American Leadership in the Vietnam Era
… relegated to non-combative duties, until the Vietnam War. This was the first major conflict in which African Americans had been deployed in large numbers in non-segregated units and placed in combat roles. Black soldiers’ role in war transformed during the Vietnam era and helped give rise to …
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Still imperial? The White House, the Vietnam syndrome and the politics of military intervention in the United States. A study of presidential deployment decisions: 1982-1995: A study of presidential deployment decisions: 1982-1995
How has the Vietnam War affected America's response to international conflicts? Have American Presidents been less likely to sanction a US military response to international conflicts in the post-Vietnam era? Has their ability to deploy US forces been weakened in any way by the Vietnam experience? …
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Saigon to Baghdad : comparing combat correspondents' experiences in Vietnam and Iraq
… the responses of journalists who covered the Vietnam War with responses of reporters who covered the conflict in Iraq to measure differences and similarities. The comparison showed that reporters working in Iraq faced more constraints in accessing the news because of greater physical danger …
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Changes in Navy Leadership Theory and Practice: Post-Vietnam
Since the Vietnam War, Navy leadership theory and practice has changed, becoming more like current civilian leadership theory and practice than traditional leadership of old. Indicators of this change have been seen in journal writings, the new Navy performance evaluation structure, current Navy …
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Essays on veterans disability compensation and the effects of military service
… data from the U.S. Army, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the U.S. Social Security Administration. The first chapter investigates the correlation between local labor markets and VA Disability Compensation (DC) receipt among National Guard veterans who deployed to a combat zone …
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The Protester as Producer: Militant Action and the U.S. Radical Media
… discourse in the context of the U.S. war in Vietnam and its concurrent racial crises. The histories I have unearthed through archival research transform our understanding of protest in the Vietnam era and beyond, revising conventional histories of militancy in this period and instead bringing …
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Identifying and estimating the distributional effects of unionization and the long-term consequences of military service
… upper tail of earnings, with little effect on average earnings. Unionization also increases retention among workers with lower pre-election earnings, but decreases it for higher-earning workers. These effects are interpreted as reflecting the political incentives unions face in certification …
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Vietnam veteran levels of combat : perceived and actual violence
… exists between levels of combat experienced by Vietnam veterans and later perceptions of violence, violent attitudes, and violent participants: heavy combat Vietnam veterans; light combat Vietnam veterans; Vietnam era veterans; and non-veteran (civilian) friends of Vietnam veterans.Calvert's …
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Force and the United States after Vietnam: Allison applied
… power of this decision making model in the post-Vietnam era, this thesis applies the specific propositions of Graham Allison's "Governmental Politics Model" concerning the use of military force, to selected case studies. In an attempt to determine the explanatory power of Allison's Governmental …
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The External Conflict of Modern War Correspondents: Technology's Inevitable Impact on the Extinction of Nostalgic Combat Reporting
Through historical and content analyses of war coverage, this study qualitatively addresses emotional quality, use of sources, and implied use of technology to better understand the tension between Vietnam and Afghanistan war correspondents and their military counterparts. Early American democracy …
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"I'd Rather Be Forgotten Than Dishonored": An Oral and Life History Project with a Vietnam Veteran
… Americans served in the military during the Vietnam era and roughly 40,000 of them as helicopter pilots in Vietnam, yet scholars are still trying to understand the Vietnam experience. There is little doubt that the war played an influential role in the lives of that generation. Yet, many …
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“One, two, three, four, we don’t want your fucking war”: The student protest movements at Columbia University and Kent State University during the war in Vietnam
… lacking from the historical record. The Vietnam era was a pivotal turning point in American university life, during which students across the country pushed for changes not only to the institutions of higher learning but also to the country as a whole. This historical comparative analysis …
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"""Though Their Bones Crunched, Their Shut Mouths Made No Moan"": Speaking the Corpse in Twentieth Century Anglo -American War Poetry"
… off to the trenches of France. Although generally dismissed as unrealistic and escapist, popular WWI poetry shows an obsession with death that reflects deep anxieties about the war and the course of modernization. Around 1930 these largely consolatory visions of the apotheosized dead were …
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Postcombat Military Job Satisfaction Among Vietnam Helicopter Aviators
… job-satisfaction, ability, and task demands in Vietnam era helicopter aviators. It attempted to detect and describe factors present in a dangerous combat environment which may influence some individuals to enjoy and take satisfaction at being exposed to, creating, and participating in the …
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The Myth of the Green Berets: How One Group of Soldiers Helped Sell a Nation on the Virtue of War
… types of American military units fought in the Vietnam War, a disproportionate amount of media attention concentrated on one group: the Special Forces. More commonly known as the Green Berets, these “elite” soldiers were lauded in the Vietnam era for their foreign language skills, martial …
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Memorial Museums and Material Witnesses: Framing Objects as Witnesses to Trauma
… in the post-Holocaust, post-Hiroshima, post-Vietnam era” (Leys, p. 267f). This thesis will contribute to the theoretical and museological conversation concerning objects and their representation in the aftermath of trauma, with an emphasis on interobjectivity as a tool to combat consumptive …
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A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s
This thesis is both a literary history of the military science fiction (military SF) subgenre and a cultural history of the United States of America during the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. This thesis academically rehabilitates a neglected literary subgenre, and utilises it to prove …
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Vietnam Veterans and American Mass Media: The Politics of the Image
… examination of the image of the Vietnam veteran as contested cultural and ideological terrain in recent America. Drawing on Gramscian theories of ideology and hegemony, as well as conceptualizations of semiotic appropriation and bricolage employed in cultural studies, the study …
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