America After Vietnam From Anguish to Healing Routledge Revivals Series
Auteur : An Tai Sung
First published in 1997, this volume explores the twenty years it has taken the United States to decide where Vietnam belongs on its mental landscape, as indicated by the establishment of official diplomatic relations between the two countries on August 5, 1995. Having won the Cold War, but lost a skirmish in Vietnam, America?s defeat can now be set in context against subsequent campaigns in Afghanistan, Angola, El Salvador, Eritrea, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere which suggest that the best any outsider can expect by intervening in Third World domestic conflicts is a hugely expensive, bloody stalemate. Tai Sung-An identifies that, despite America?s painful, deep and very expensive involvement in Vietnam for a lengthy two decades, Americans fought, failed and left while remaining ignorant of the most elementary knowledge of Vietnam, symptomatic of a cultural gap, isolationism and even intellectual complacency.
1. The Agony of Blunder. 2. The Cycle of the Letdown. 3. The Process of Healing. 4. The Missing-in-Action (MIA) Issue. 5. Conclusion: Farewell to the Old Bitter War.
Date de parution : 03-2021
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 12-2024
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes d’America After Vietnam :
Mots-clés :
Young Men; official diplomatic relations; CIA Station Chief; mental landscape; Vietnam War; American-Vietnamese relations; America's Retreat; Vietnamese Communist; Antiwar Critics; Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Cam Ranh Bay; Bui Tin; Mao Zedong; Vietnam People's Army; Senate Select Committee; Vietnam Veterans; Vietnam Scholarship; Adolf Hitler; United States Embargo; United States Foreign Relations; Tv Movie; North Vietnamese Army Officer; American Prisoners; Final Lesson; Nixon Administration's National Security; Russian Document; Nguyen Huu Tho; NATO Ally