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This concluding volume of The Vietnam War and International Law
focuses on the last stages of America's combat role in Indochina.
The articles in the first section deal with general aspects of the
relationship of international law to the Indochina War. Sections II
and III are concerned with the adequacy of the laws of war under
modern conditions of combat, and with related questions of
individual responsibility for the violation of such laws. Section
IV deals with some of the procedural issues related to the
negotiated settlement of the war. The materials in Section V seek
to reappraise the relationship between the constitutional structure
of the United States and the way in which the war was conducted,
while the final section presents the major documents pertaining to
the end of American combat involvement in Indochina. A supplement
takes account of the surrender of South Vietnam in spring 1975.
Contributors to the volume--lawyers, scholars, and government
officials--include Dean Rusk, Eugene V. Rostow, Richard A. Falk,
John Norton Moore, and Richard Wasserstrom. Originally published in
1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
For more than a decade, the United States has been fighting wars so
far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles
and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored.
Photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson has been working to
prevent that. His dramatic photographs of the Iraq war for the New
York Times and his book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot took readers into the
mayhem of Baghdad, Ramadi, Samarra, and Fallujah. But with Bedrooms
of the Fallen, Gilbertson reminds us that the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq have also reached deep into homes far from the noise of
battle, down quiet streets and country roads-the homes of family
and friends who bear their grief out of view. The book's
wide-format black-and-white images depict the bedrooms of forty
fallen soldiers-the equivalent of a single platoon-from the United
States, Canada, and several European nations. Left intact by
families of the deceased, the bedrooms are a heartbreaking reminder
of lives cut short: we see high school diplomas and pictures from
prom, sports medals and souvenirs, and markers of the idealism that
carried them to war, like images of the Twin Towers and Osama Bin
Laden. A moving essay by Gilbertson describes his encounters with
the families who preserve these private memorials to their loved
ones and shares what he has learned from them about war and loss.
Bedrooms of the Fallen is a masterpiece of documentary photography
and an unforgettable reckoning with the human cost of war.
How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an
enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war
the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent
war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the
Korean War, Steven Casey explores how President Truman and then
Eisenhower tried to sell it to the American public.
Based on a massive array of primary sources, Casey subtly explores
the government's selling activities from all angles. He looks at
the halting and sometimes chaotic efforts of Harry Truman and Dean
Acheson, Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. He examines the
relationships that they and their subordinates developed with a
host of other institutions, from Congress and the press to
Hollywood and labor. And he assesses the complex and fraught
interactions between the military and war correspondents in the
battlefield theater itself.
From high politics to bitter media spats, Casey guides the reader
through the domestic debates of this messy, costly war. He
highlights the actions and calculations of colorful figures,
including Senators Robert Taft and JHoseph McCarthy, and General
Douglas MacArthur. He details how the culture and work routines of
Congress and the media influenced political tactics and daily news
stories. And he explores how different phases of the war threw up
different problems - from the initial disasters in the summer of
1950 to the giddy prospects of victory in October 1950, from the
massive defeats in the wake of China's massive intervention to the
lengthy period of stalemate fighting in 1952 and 1953.
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No foreign policy decision in recent history has had greater
repercussions than President George W. Bush's decision to invade
and occupy Iraq. It launched a new doctrine of preemptive war,
mired the American military in an intractable armed conflict,
disrupted world petroleum supplies, cost the United States hundreds
of billions of dollars, and damaged or ended the lives of hundreds
of thousands of Americans and Iraqis. Its impact on international
politics and America's standing in the world remains incalculable.
The Iraq Papers offers a compelling documentary narrative and
interpretation of this momentous conflict. With keen editing and
incisive commentary, the book weaves together original documents
that range from presidential addresses to redacted memos, carrying
us from the ideology behind the invasion to negotiations for
withdrawal. These papers trace the rise of the neoconservatives and
reveal the role of strategic thinking about oil supplies. In moving
to the planning for the war itself, the authors not only provide
Congressional resolutions and speeches by President Bush, but
internal security papers, Pentagon planning documents, the report
of the Future of Iraq Project, and eloquent opposition statements
by Senator Robert Byrd, other world governments, the Non-Aligned
Movement, and the World Council of Churches. This collection
addresses every aspect of the conflict, from the military's
evolving counterinsurgency strategy to declarations by Iraqi
resisters and political figures-from Coalition Provisional
Authority orders to Donald Rumsfeld's dismissal of the insurgents
as "dead-enders" and Iraqi discussions of state- and nationbuilding
under the shadow of occupation. The economics of petroleum, the
legal and ethical questions surrounding terrorism and torture,
international agreements, the theory of the "unitary presidency,"
and the Bush administration's use of presidential signing
statements all receive in-depth coverage.
The Iraq War has reshaped the domestic and international landscape.
The Iraq Papers offers the authoritative one-volume source for
understanding the conflict and its many repercussions.
The conflict in Vietnam has been rewritten and reframed into many
corners of American life and has long shadowed contemporary
political science and foreign policy. The war and its aftermath
have engendered award-winning films and books. It has held up a
mirror to the twentieth century and to the wars of the
twenty-first. Set in wartime Vietnam and contemporary Vietnam, in
wartime America and in America today, the stories that comprise
Memorial Days were written from 1973 to the present. As our
continuing reappraisals of the war's shadow have unspooled over the
last half-decade, so too has Wayne Karlin returned to the subject
in his fiction, collected and published together here for the first
time. A girl in Maryland runs away from Civil War reenactors she
imagines to be American soldiers in Vietnam, while a woman in
Vietnam hides in the jungle from an American helicopter and another
tries to bury the relics of the war. A man mourns a friend lost in
Iraq while a helicopter crewman in Quang Tri loads the broken and
dead into his aircraft. Extras playing soldiers in a war film in
present-day Vietnam model themselves after other war films while a
Marine in a war sees himself as a movie character. A snake coiled
around the collective control of a helicopter in Vietnam uncoils in
a soldier come home from Iraq. The chronology is the chronology of
dreams or nightmares or triggered flashbacks: images and incidents
triggering other images and incidents in a sequence that seems to
make no sense-which is exactly the sense it makes. Some stories
burn with the fresh experiences of a Marine witnessing war
firsthand. Some stories radiate a long-abiding grief. All the
stories reflect and reconfigure the Vietnam War as it echoes into
the present century, under the light of retrospection.
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after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US Army. He
made a twelve-month odyssey across Europe, spending time in
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Mediterranean in a tiny boat, and enduring a desolate month in the
camp at Calais. Somehow he survived, and made it to Britain, where
he was fostered, sent to school, and won a place at a top
university. He was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012. One
boy's experience is the central story of our times. This powerful
memoir celebrates the triumph of courage over adversity.
The Sunday Times Bestseller that inspired BBC drama Danny Boy At
the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq,
in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy. Ambushed, he led a charge
across open ground with insurgents firing at just five soldiers. On
his return, he was awarded the Military Cross. But Brian's story
had only just begun. Struggling to re-integrate into family life,
he suffered from PTSD. Then, five years later, a letter arrived: it
summoned him to give evidence at the Al-Sweady Inquiry into
allegations of war crimes by British soldiers during the Iraq
invasion of 2003. After years of public shame, Brian took the stand
and delivered a powerful testimony, and following the tense inquiry
room scenes, justice was finally served. Phil Shiner, the lawyer
who made the false accusations, was struck off and stripped of an
honorary doctorate. In this compelling memoir, Brian speaks
powerfully and movingly about the three battles in his life, from
being ambushed with no cover, to the mental battle to adjust at
home, to being falsely accused of hideous war crimes. It's a
remarkable and dark curve which ends with his honour restored but,
as he says, it was too little, too late.
This concluding volume of The Vietnam War and International Law
focuses on the last stages of America's combat role in Indochina.
The articles in the first section deal with general aspects of the
relationship of international law to the Indochina War. Sections II
and III are concerned with the adequacy of the laws of war under
modern conditions of combat, and with related questions of
individual responsibility for the violation of such laws. Section
IV deals with some of the procedural issues related to the
negotiated settlement of the war. The materials in Section V seek
to reappraise the relationship between the constitutional structure
of the United States and the way in which the war was conducted,
while the final section presents the major documents pertaining to
the end of American combat involvement in Indochina. A supplement
takes account of the surrender of South Vietnam in spring 1975.
Contributors to the volume--lawyers, scholars, and government
officials--include Dean Rusk, Eugene V. Rostow, Richard A. Falk,
John Norton Moore, and Richard Wasserstrom. Originally published in
1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Issues of the war that have provoked public controversy and legal
debate over the last two years--the Cambodian invasion of May-June
1970, the disclosure in November 1969 of the My Lai massacre, and
the question of war crimes--are the focus of Volume 3. As in the
previous volumes, the Civil War Panel of the American Society of
International Law has endeavored to select the most significant
legal writing on the subject and to provide, to the extent
possible, a balanced presentation of opposing points of view. Parts
I and II deal directly with the Cambodian, My Lai, and war crimes
debates. Related questions are treated in the rest of the volume:
constitutional debate on the war; the distribution of functions
among coordinate branches of the government; the legal status of
the insurgent regime in the struggle for control of South Vietnam;
prospects for settlement without a clear-cut victory; and Vietnam's
role in general world order. The articles reflect the views of some
forty contributors: among them, Jean Lacouture, Henry Kissinger,
John Norton Moore, Quincy Wright, William H. Rhenquist, and Richard
A. Falk. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
In the spring of 1966 the Vietnam War was intensifying, driven by
the US military build up, under which the 9th Infantry Division was
reactivated. Charlie Company was part of the 9th and representative
of the melting pot of America. But, unlike the vast majority of
other companies in the US Army, the men of Charlie Company were a
close-knit family. They joined up together, trained together, and
were deployed together. This is their story. From the joker who
roller-skated into the Company First Sergeant's office wearing a
dress, to the nerdy guy with two left feet who would rather be off
somewhere inventing computers, and the everyman who just wanted to
keep his head down and get through un-noticed and preferably
unscathed. Written by leading Vietnam expert Dr Andrew Wiest, The
Boys of '67 tells the unvarnished truth about the war in Vietnam,
recounting the fear of death and the horrors of battle through the
recollections of the young men themselves. America doesn't know
their names or their story, the story of the boys of Charlie, young
draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of
them and received so little in return - lost faces and silent
voices of a distant war.
By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a
stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American
forces, announced a new phase of the war in which 'the end begins
to come into view.' The North Vietnamese had different ideas. In
mid-1967, the leadership in Hanoi had started planning an offensive
intended to win the war in a single stroke. Part military action
and part popular uprising, the Tet Offensive included attacks
across South Vietnam, but the most dramatic and successful would be
the capture of Hue, the country's cultural capital. At 2:30 a.m. on
January 31, 10,000 National Liberation Front troops descended from
hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000. By morning, all
of Hue was in Front hands save for two small military outposts. The
commanders in country and politicians in Washington refused to
believe the size and scope of the Front's presence. After several
futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would
finally come up with a strategy to retake the city, block by block
and building by building, in some of the most intense urban combat
since World War II. With unprecedented access to war archives in
the U.S. and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both
sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through
multiple points of view. Played out over twenty-four days of
terrible fighting and ultimately costing 10,000 combatant and
civilian lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the
entire war. When it ended, the American debate was never again
about winning, only about how to leave. In Hue 1968, Bowden
masterfully reconstructs this pivotal moment in the American war in
Vietnam.
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