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Books > Humanities > History > American history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > Vietnam War
The Marines in Vietnam, 1954 - 1973, an anthology and Annotated
Bibliography, based on articles that appeared in the U.S. Naval
Institute Proceedings, Naval Review, and Marine Corps Gazette, has
served well for 14 years as an interim reference on the Vietnam
War. In 1974, events in Vietnam and the appearance of additional
significant articles in the three periodicals have made both the
anthology and bibliography somewhat dated. This expanded edition
extends the coverage of the anthology to 1975 and the entries in
the bibliography to 1984.
This is the eighth volume in a planned 10-volume operational and
chronological series covering the Marine Corps' participation in
the Vietnam War. A separate topical series will complement the
operational histories. This particular volume details the gradual
withdrawl in 1970-1971 of Marine combat forces from South Vietnam's
northernmost corps area, I Corps, as part of an overall American
strategy of turning the ground was against the North Vietnamese and
Viet Cong over to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam.
This is the eighth volume of a projected nine-volume history of
Marine Corps operations in the Vietnam War. A separate functional
series complements the operational histories. This volume details
the activities of Marine Corps units after the departure from
Vietnam in 1971 of III Marine Amphibious Force, through to the 1973
ceasefire, and includes the return of Marine prisoners of war from
North Vietnam. Written from diverse views and sources, the common
thread in this narrative is the continued resistance of the South
Vietnames Armed Forces, in particular the Vietnamese Marine Corps,
to Communist aggression. This book is written from the perspective
of the American Marines who assisted them in their efforts. Someday
the former South Vietnamese Marines will be able to tell their own
story.
For the conscripts of who experienced the Vietnam 'police action',
the way the world was seen, shaped, and understood was
irretrievably changed by war. In his gentle, humorous and moving
memoir, Ted George gives voice to the experience that changed the
course of his life - and the lives of so many men - forever.
Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the
American wars in Korea and Vietnam. Enlisted into proxy warfare,
this figure is not a friend but a "friendly," a wartime convenience
enlisted to serve a superpower. It is through this deeply unequal
relation, however, that the Cold War friendly secures her own
integrity and insists upon her place in the neocolonial imperium.
This study reads a set of highly enterprising wartime subjects who
make their way to the US via difficult attachments. American forces
ventured into newly postcolonial Korea and Vietnam, both plunged
into civil wars, to draw the dividing line of the Cold War. The
strange success of containment and militarization in Korea
unraveled in Vietnam, but the friendly marks the significant
continuity between these hot wars. In both cases, the friendly
justified the fight: she was also a political necessity who
redeployed cold war alliances, and, remarkably, made her way to
America. As subjects in process-and indeed, proto-Americans-these
figures are prime literary subjects, whose processes of becoming
are on full display in Asian American novels and testimonies of
these wars. Literary writings on both of these conflicts are
presently burgeoning, and Cold War Friendships performs close
analyses of key texts whose stylistic constraints and
contradictions-shot through with political and historical
nuance-present complex gestures of alliance.
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