Dissertations / Theses: 'Vietnam War'

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McCandless, Richard Thomas. "Korean War and Vietnam War Strategies: A Comparison." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1236018769.

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Meyer, Christina. "War & trauma images in Vietnam War representations." Hildesheim Zürich New York, NY Olms, 2007. http://d-nb.info/991472861/04.

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Proctor, Patrick E. "The Vietnam War debate and the Cold War consensus." Diss., Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18665.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Department of History
Donald Mrozek
Both Presidents Johnson and Nixon used the ideology of military containment of Communism to justify U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. Until 1968, opponents of this intervention attacked the ideology of containment or its application to Vietnam. In 1968, opponents of the war switched tactics and began to focus instead on the President’s credibility. These arguments quickly became the dominant critique of the war through its end and were ultimately successful in ending it. The Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution were central to the change of opposition strategy in 1968. For Johnson, the Gulf of Tonkin incident had provided the political impetus to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which the administration used as an insurance policy against Congressional dissent. For Congressional dissenters in 1968, inconsistencies in Johnson’s version of the Gulf of Tonkin incident allowed them to undermine the Resolution as a weapon against Congress. For the American people, revelations about the administration’s dishonesty during the incident simply added to grave doubts that Americans already had about Johnson’s credibility; the American people lost confidence in Johnson, ending his Presidency. The dramatic success of this new strategy—attacking the administration’s credibility—encouraged other opponents to follow suit, permanently altering the framework of debate over the war. This change in opposition strategy in 1968 had a number of important consequences. First, this change in rhetoric ultimately ended the war. To sustain his credibility against relentless attack, President Nixon repeatedly withdrew troops to prove to the American people he was ending the war. Nixon ran out of troops to withdraw and had to accept an unfavorable peace. Second, after the war, this framework for debate of military interventions established—between advocates using the ideology of containment and opponents attacking the administration’s credibility—would reemerge nearly every time an administration contemplated military intervention through the end of the Cold War. Finally, because opponents of military intervention stopped challenging containment in 1968, the American public continued to accept the precepts of containment and the Cold War consensus survived until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

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Middleton, Alexis Turley. "A true war story : reality and fiction in the American literature and film of the Vietnam War /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2467.pdf.

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Wilson, Anthony Wayne. "The Vietnam War and the press." Thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03032009-040753/.

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Agajanian, Rowana. "Telling stories : the Vietnam War documentary." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2011. http://bucks.collections.crest.ac.uk/9621/.

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This is an original piece of research that addresses a much neglected area in documentary film. The study encompasses 26 documentaries produced by 10 different countries and examines them in terms of international perspectives, documentary form and function, and political debates. The first part of the thesis explores the international political context and the various rivalries and alliances that played a part in the conflict. The second part provides a detailed examination of the 26 documentaries providing both textual and contextual analysis. The third part is devoted to film theory and cultural theory.

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Martini, Edwin Anton. "Invisible enemies the American war on Vietnam, 1975-2000 /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1669.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Thesis research directed by: American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Lor, Gjinn. "The Vietnam War Hmong soldiers' personal experiences in the secret war /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007lorg.pdf.

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Quek, Ser Hwee. "Before Tet : American bombing and attempts at negotiation with North Vietnam, 1964-1968 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10482.

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Kissick, Gary Richard. "The Vietnam war narrative : fighting for purchase." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437890.

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This thesis comprises a Vietnam War novel written by a former anti-war activist (Please Set Me Free So I Can Destroy The Earth), an examination of the creative process as it pertains to that novel, and a critical look at narratives informing the novel, most notably Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, Michael Herr's Dispatches, and Nathaniel Tripp's Father, Soldier, Son (all memoirs); Wallace Terry's Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans; and the fiction of Tim O'Brien and Larry Heinemann. Common to the narratives of Vietnam, including this novel, is the sense that the narrator has lost control of a story he nevertheless feels compelled to tell, thus finding himself engaged in a lonely struggle to order the incoherent. The story is not the story the narrator expected to tell; it is not the story of heroism and sacrifice told by his father. The war offers neither clear boundaries nor comfortable myths. It abounds with abominations, terrors, ambiguities, uncertainties, bitter ironies, strange beauty, squalor, guilt, and trauma. The narrator has no understanding of the war's higher strategy or political necessity and questions the very existence of such. He may be disillusioned, disgusted, shell-shocked, confused. Because the war cannot be easily apprehended, the narrator must fight for purchase. Many of the best Vietnam narratives wrestle with questions of how to apprehend truth, of the relation between art and experience, of the difference between fact and interpretation. They struggle to decipher a war that cannot even be illustrated on a map. Many strive for expiation, and thus help the American psyche come to terms with defeat and often dishonor. They illustrate perfectly the need for narrative, in both our personal lives and the life of a nation, to provide structure, coherence, and even necessary myth.

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Garey, Julie Marie. "Presidential Decision-Making During the Vietnam War." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1219374275.

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James, B. Violet. "American Protestant missions and the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1989. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU026822.

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The thesis examines two American Protestant Missions - the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) and the Mennonites - in the light of the Vietnam War. The CMA was chosen because it was the oldest and largest Protestant Mission in Vietnam. It was a typical American evangelical mission which mentally divided the world into two spheres: the realm of the spirit and the realm of matter. Therefore it understood its primary task as spiritual: to verbalize the Christian message with the hope of establishing a Vietnamese Church. It accomplished this in the birth of the Evangelical Church of Vietnam in 1927. The missionaries assumed a role of non-involvement in politics but had no qualms about revering the American government and its policies, or in being patriotic citizens. This was a paradox. The Mennonites stood essentially in the evangelical tradition (Anabaptist) but stressed service to all people in need; suffering as an essential mark of a Christian and the necessity for a peace witness. They entered Vietnam in 1954, specifically to administer relief to the refugees who had fled from the North. The Mennonites did not compartmentalize the world into two neat spheres as they believed that the affairs and dictates of the state had implications for the Church. Thus it had to contend with any moral or ethical issue. The Vietnam War brought to light the differences of these two Missions. The CMA believed in the war and identified with the American war effort in order to pursue its spiritual task of preaching the gospel. The Mennonites believed that the CMA's close identification with the American war effort distorted the image of Christian missions. They boldly testified to the evils of the war but recognized their primary task as service to the suffering people. The tragedy of the American missions in Vietnam was the failure of both Missions to understand the other's beliefs and premise. The differences between the CMA and the Mennonites and the tensions that arose between them created the basis for a comparative study.

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Arioli, Mattia <1990&gt. "Remembering the Vietnam War in Graphic Narratives." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/9853/1/Arioli_Mattia_tesi.pdf.

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This project discusses the relation between memory and graphic novels, mainly focusing on the ongoing narration of the Vietnam War. It adopts a diachronic and philological approach to reconstruct the history of the medium and its entanglement with war, be it as instrument of propaganda or as a memory project. It follows the development of the medium in Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers, analyzing how mass culture helped consolidating a persuasive ‘war mentality’. It reflects on the role that comics played in the creation of the myth of the ‘good war’. It also shows how the ‘god war’ pattern became increasingly contested during the Vietnam War, following the questioning of the traditional “American values” promoted by the counterculture of the time. Finally, it explores how the narration (and memory) of the Vietnam War has changed after September 11, 2001, and it describes the emergence of graphic narratives written by diasporic Vietnamese graphic artists.

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Ferguson, Laura Elizabeth. "Kicking the Vietnam syndrome? : collective memory of the Vietnam War in fictional American cinema following the 1991 Gulf War." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2672/.

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This thesis analyses the concept of the “Vietnam Syndrome” and its continuing manifestation in fictional American films produced after the 1991 Gulf War, with reference to depictions of the Vietnam, Gulf and Iraq Wars. Based on contemporary press reports as source material and critical analysis, it identifies the “Vietnam Syndrome” as a flexible and altering national psychological issue characterised initially as a simple aversion to military engagement, but which grew to include collective feelings of shame, guilt and a desire to rewrite history. The thesis argues that the “Syndrome” was not quashed by the victory of the Gulf War in 1991, as had been speculated at the time. Rather, the thesis argues that it was only temporarily displaced and continues to be an ingrained feature of the collective American psyche in current times. The argument is based on theories of collective memory, according to which social attitudes are expressed in cultural products such as films. The relationships between memory and history, and between memory and national identity are explored as two highly relevant branches of collective memory research. The first of these combines the theories of Bodnar (1992), Sturken (1997), Winter and Sivan (1999) and Wertsch (2002), among others, to define memory’s relationship with history and position in the present. The discussion of the relationship between memory and national identity describes the process by which memory is adopted into the national collective, based on the research of Schudson (1992) and Hall (1999). Consideration is given to the alternative theories of Comolli and Narboni (1992 [1969]), Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983) and Miller (2005) that propose a unified representation from a dominant ideology and of The Popular Memory Group (1982) who argue a counter-hegemonic popular memory. The thesis argues that both are insufficient to account for public memory, establishing a multi-sourced collective memory as the basis for its arguments, as described by Hynes (1999) and Wertsch (2002). Successive chapters provide a close analysis of films in relation to the “Vietnam Syndrome”. Each of the films shows the different approaches to the conflicts and ways the “Vietnam Syndrome” manifests itself. Chapter 3 provides a summary of Vietnam War films released prior to the main period focused upon in this thesis, in order to contextualise the post-Gulf War texts. Chapter 4 analyses Heaven and Earth (1993, Dir. Oliver Stone) as a revolutionary depiction of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese depiction. Chapter 5 discusses The War (1994, Dir. Jon Avnet) as a late revisionist text. The focus of Chapter 6 is Apocalypse Now Redux (2001, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola), a revision of a vision, in which the additional scenes are analysed for their contribution to this later, more reflective version of the 1970s text Apocalypse Now. The last Vietnam film analysed, We Were Soldiers (2002, Dir. Randall Wallace), is the subject of Chapter 7 and is discussed with reference to post-September 11 American society and the dormant period of the “Vietnam Syndrome.” Chapter 8 brings the previous Vietnam War film analysis chapters together to form intermediate conclusions prior to the progression to Gulf War films. Chapter 9 provides a break in the film analysis chapters to consider the press coverage of the Gulf War, compared to that of Vietnam, paving the way for the following discussion of Gulf War films. Press coverage of the Gulf War influences the visual depiction of the Gulf War in both Three Kings (1999, Dir. David O’Russell) in Chapter 10 and Jarhead (2005, Dir. Sam Mendes) in Chapter 11. The reading of Three Kings also analyses the narrative as a metaphor for American concerns over the American-led coalition’s conduct during the conflict, while Chapter 11 argues the use of Vietnam War films as media templates (Kitzinger, 2000) in Jarhead. Finally, Chapter 13 brings the film analysis to a close by discussing the early representations of the Iraq War that have emerged in recent years, including: American Soldiers: A Day in Iraq (2005, Dir. Sidney J. Furie), Home of The Brave (2006, Dir. Irwin Winkler), Stop-Loss (2008, Dir. Kimberley Peirce), Lions For Lambs (2007, Dir. Robert Redford) Redacted (2008, Dir. Brian de Palma) and The Hurt Locker (2008, Dir. Kathryn Bigelow). The main, but not exclusive, features typifying the “Vietnam Syndrome” expressed through the films include: a reluctance to engage in or support foreign military intervention; use of “good war” and “bad war” discourse; signs of a collective national trauma of defeat; expressions of guilt for the consequences of American actions and failings of policy; attempts to restore the national self-image. This thesis concludes that the “Vietnam Syndrome” is still relevant to American society and that it is expressed through films in a variety of ways. It argues that the Vietnam War and the “Vietnam Syndrome” have become frames of reference for the discussion and representation of conflict and that the American collective psyche suffers a mixture of syndromes, some mutually enforcing and some contradictory, that are triggered by a variety of circumstances. The “Vietnam Syndrome” is identified as the most prolific of these and through its construction and circulation in media products, including cinema, this thesis argues it has become an umbrella term for the remnants of angst over Vietnam and new concerns over other conflicts.

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Randell, Karen Mary. "Hollywood and war : trauma in film after the First World War and the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/50596/.

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This thesis examines war trauma in film; it is a comparative reading that aims to study the relationship between films made after the First World War in the 1920s and films made during and after the Vietnam War. I use thirteen focus film texts, some which explicitly engage with war and some that do not. This thesis will argue that the production of these particular films was inflected by the collective trauma that the wars produced in American society. There was not, for example, an explicit combat film made for seven years after the First World War and thirteen years after the Vietnam War. This gap, I will argue, is symptomatic of the cultural climate that existed after each war, but can also be understood in terms of the need for temporal space in which to assimilate the traumas of these wars. An engagement with recent debates in Trauma Theory will be utilised to explore this production gap between event and film, and to suggest that trauma exists not only within the narratives of these focus films but also within the production process itself. This thesis contributes significantly to recent debates in Trauma Studies. As it presents film history scholarship, First World War and Vietnam veteran experiences and archive newspaper research as compatible disciplines and uses the lens of trauma theory as a methodological thread and tool of analysis.

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Boyle, Brenda Marie. "Prisoners of war formations of masculinities in Vietnam war fiction and film /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1060873937.

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Gravagna, Massimiliano. "Vietnam: Moderata Ungdomsförbundet och vietnamnkriget 1665-1973." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-108603.

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The purpose of this study is to examine how the Swedish Young Conservatives related to Vietnam issue between 1965 and 1973 by studying the organization's own newspaper with the method qualitative text analysis as described in Esaiasson et al. (2007). In the absence of previous research which has studied the same topic we have chosen to relate the results of this study to previous studies, that have dealt with Svenska Dagbladet´s attitude to the Vietnam war, as it is the most well known conservative Swedish newspaper and can thus be considered representative of the conservative press in Sweden. In order to achieve the aim, we studied the association's view on the Vietnam conflict, on American policy and on the Swedish Government's policy as well as on Vietnam issue as discussed in Swedish public opinion.The results shows that Swedish Young Conservatives retains a positive image of the United States for almost the entire investigation period, when the United States is seen as the good party in the conflict and as a symbol for democracy and freedom. A new and more negative image of the United States is emerging in 1972. The conflict is seen as the United States fight against communism until 1972, when a reassessment of the conflict takes place and the United States presence in Vietnam is beginning to be questioned. The result also shows that the Swedish Young Consevatives remains critical of the Government's policy of Vietnam during the entire investigation period, in line with the moderate party. Key words: Vietnam War, Swedish Young Conservatives, Swedish conservative press, Swedish foreign politics.

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Busch, Peter. "Britain and Kennedy's war in Vietnam, 1961-1963." Online version, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.311592.

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Dixon, Lee Russell. "The Vietnam War and the U.S. South : regional perspectives on a national war." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-vietnam-war-and-the-us-southregional-perspectives-on-a-national-war(e13ee8e3-d5f6-4ce8-a105-fc6021e7eefe).html.

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The American South’s cultural distinctiveness has been a central historiographical issue debated by scholars since the first decades of the country’s inception. Implicitly or explicitly, this debate centres largely on one question – why has the South retained its distinct identity for cultural, social, political and economic exclusivity? This thesis examines southern distinctiveness with specific reference to America’s military involvement in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s, providing new insights upon an old question. Although a national effort, which encompassed the service over three million men, America’s 16 year involvement in their war against the communist-backed North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Minh/Vietcong (VC) forces was shaped by distinct southern influences attributed to the region’s history and culture. This thesis demonstrates that the southern influence over America’s political, economic and military theatres profoundly shaped the direction and administration of the Vietnam War. Southerners occupied crucial leadership roles throughout the Vietnam war era, including the presidency and Secretary of State, while both the Senate and the House of Representatives were led by men from South of the Mason-Dixon Line.

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Seddelmeyer, Laura M. "All the Way with LBJ?: Australian Grand Strategy and the Vietnam War." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1236630726.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, March, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. Release of full electronic text on OhioLINK has been delayed until April 1, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-108)

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Hiddlestone, Janine Frances. "An uneasy legacy Vietnam veterans and Australian society /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/1113/.

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Crowe, Ambrose. "War and conflict : the Australian Vietnam Veterans Association." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9333.

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Tang, Chieu Giam. "The Vietnam War and Sino-American relations, 1966." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0005/MQ34917.pdf.

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Smits, Sara Elizabeth. "Unclear path explosive remnants of war in Vietnam /." Related electronic resource:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1407689641&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Busch, Peter. "Britain and Kennedy's war in Vietnam : 1961-1963." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311592.

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Shore, Michael R. (Michael Richard). "America's Vietnam casualties--victims of a class war?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17269.

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Milne, David. "Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War, 1961-1969." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615280.

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Le, Hai Van. "The Vietnam War and the laws of war : an examination of North Vietnam's military strategy and its compliance with the laws of war." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4050/.

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The thesis focuses on the Vietnamese side of the Vietnam War. Though this war is one of the wars best documented, literature about the Vietnamese side is much less in comparison with that about the American side. In the war, inherited from the long history of national defence and influenced by Marxism-Leninism on war and army, North Vietnam applied the Vietnamese strategy of people's war.calling all Vietnamese people to participate in national effort to fight against American aggression. The North Vietnam's military strategy was not consistent with the basic principles of the laws of war as it did not distinguish combatants from non-combatants. This strategy put civilian population at risk. However, the thesis demonstrates through original archive and interview based research how the People's Army of Vietnam (PA VN) was not unrestrained. It had its own rules of engagement in fighting as well as in everyday contact with civilian, in order to minimize civilian casualties and protect civilian lives and assets. Also, PAVN paid great attention to winning and maintaining support of civilian as this support was crucial for its own existence as well as its war fighting capability. One implication of studying the North Vietnam's way of war is that North Vietnam's war against America was not immoral. It also has implications on the debate about the morality of American war in Vietnam and reflection to the American's current counterinsurgency doctrine - the Petraeus Doctrine.

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Sisson, Timothy Wallace Patricia Ward. "Uncovered the cover-up of the My Lai massacre /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5278.

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Kerns, Brian D. "Not just an infantryman's war United States armored cavalry of the Vietnam War /." Fort Leavenworth, KS : US Army Command and General Staff College, 2006. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA479404.

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Keenan, Bethany S. Reid Donald M. "Vietnam Is fighting for us French identities and the U.S. - Vietnam War, 1965-1973 /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2353.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.

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Marsala, Miles Steven. "Baby Boomers and the Vietnam War: A life Course Approach to Aging Vietnam Veterans." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5999.

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The sheer size of the baby boomer cohort has prompted a great deal of research on life outcomes and potential social strain or benefit of such a large cohort. A major contingency for the baby boomers was the experience of the Vietnam War. Many young men had their life course trajectories interrupted when they were drafted to military service or enrolled in college in an effort to evade the draft. This study uses the Life Family Legacies data to investigate how the Vietnam War may have affected later-life health outcomes of this cohort. Comparing physical health as captured by activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), this study found that baby boomer veterans' outcomes are similar to those of their nonveteran peers. When comparing mental health outcomes by prevalence of PTSD, findings show that those veterans who served in combat or combat support units are much more likely to show persistent signs of PTSD. Findings from this study suggest that the effects of combat are a crucial distinction when comparing outcomes between veterans and nonveterans.

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Watkins, Sean. "War correspondents ellipses from within the bubble /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4574.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--George Mason University, 2009.
Vita: p. 72. Thesis director: Tom Ashcraft. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Art and Visual Technology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-71). Also issued in print.

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Tran, Thi Ngoc Nhung. "North Vietnamese Journalists in the Vietnam War 1955-1975." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Rennes 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019REN1G034.

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Cette thèse concentre ses recherches sur les journalistes qui ont couvert la guerre du Vietnam (guerre américaine au Vietnam de 1955 à 1975) en se focalisant exclusivement sur un groupe spécifique de journalistes nord-vietnamiens qui ont couvert les batailles du Nord, du Sud ou l’ensemble lors de la guerre du Vietnam. De nombreux journalistes nord-vietnamiens qui rendaient compte des événements de la guerre ont joué un rôle important dans la guerre pour l’indépendance nationale. Beaucoup d’entre eux sont morts sur les champs de bataille et beaucoup sont sortis de la guerre avec des handicaps ou dans de mauvaises conditions de vie. Leurs contributions ne sont consignées que dans des journaux intimes, des documents historiques et des livres contenant des informations générales. Il n’y a pas eu jusqu’à présent de recherche scientifique analysant en détail : pourquoi les journalistes ont assisté à la guerre ;comment ils se sont préparés à couvrir la guerre ; quels appuis ils ont reçus de leurs directions ; quelles étaient leurs conditions de travail et de vie ; comment ils ont vécu et travaillé en fonction de ces conditions dans les combats ; quels types d’équipement ils ont utilisé pour rendre leur travail possible ; comment ils se sont déplacés vers et dans les zones de combat ; ce qu’ils ont fait quand ils se sont reposés ; ce qu’ils pensaient de leur travail ; quels résultats ils ont obtenus ; quels impacts leur participation a eue ; comment leur travail a influencé leurs propres engagements. Par conséquent, cette thèse vise à identifier ces aspects cachés du vécu des journalistes nord-vietnamiens afin de mettre en évidence leurs contributions dans les objectifs de leur pays
This thesis researches journalists who covered the Vietnam War (the American War in Vietnam from 1955 to 1975). The focus is only on a specific group of the North Vietnamese journalists who covered the battles in the North or the South or both in the Vietnam War. Many North Vietnamese journalists, who reported on the war events, played an important role in the war for national independence. Many of them died in the battlefields and many left the war with disabilities or poor living conditions. Their contributions are recorded only in diaries, historical documents, and books with general information. Nevertheless, there is no scientific research analyzing in detail : why the journalists attended to the war; how they prepared for their covering the war; what they received from their offices; what working and living conditions they had; how they lived and worked with these conditions in combats; what kinds of equipment they used to make their work possible; how they moved in battles; what they did when they rested; what they thought about their job; which products they obtained; which impacts they had from their participation; how their work influenced their own commitments. Therefore, the thesis aims to identify these hidden aspects to highlight the North Vietnamese journalists' contributions in their country's targets

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Dozier, Kimberly S. Hesse Douglas Dean. "Reading Vietnam teaching literature using historically-situated texts /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9914567.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998.
Title from title page screen, viewed July 10, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Douglas Hesse (chair), C. Anita Tarr, Charles Harris. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-241) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Ganey, Terry. "Saigon to Baghdad comparing combat correspondents' experiences in Vietnam and Iraq /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5794.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 2, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

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Laux, Katie M. "Songs in the key of protest how music reflects the social turbulence in America from the late 1950s to the early 1970s /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1184767254.

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John, Henry Richard Lawrence. "Resisting the war in "little brother country" : Vietnam War exiles, identity crisis and Canadianization." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44371.

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The object of this research project is to analyze the cultural, political and social integration of draft resisters and deserters living in Vancouver within the Canadian radical protest scene of the 1960s. In particular, it will investigate how refugees’ national and cultural identity, their own preconceptions of Canadian life and their own emotional response to their new environment either helped or hindered their attempts to engage in radical politics. War evaders involved the groups The Vancouver American Deserters Committee and Vancouver Yippie! showed divergent degrees of willingness to adapt their national and political identity to their new surroundings, and this had a direct impact on their ability to interact with the various political scenes springing up around the city. Using sociological theory and primary material (including letters, pamphlets, audio-visual material, newspaper articles and interviews) this study will prove that the maintenance of a solely American draft exile identity was in fact detrimental to an individual’s ability to engage in radical protest, and that a process of Canadianization was crucial to retaining some semblance of political relevance.

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Buzzanco, Robert. "Masters of war? : military criticism, strategy, and civil- military relations during the Vietnam war /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487844485899365.

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Tang, Mai. "Friend or Foe? Extramedia Influences on U.S. News Magazines' Post-war Coverage of Vietnam, 1976 - 2006." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1192116515.

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Allbritton, Jay Michael. "Religion and politics in films about the Vietnam war." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0001227.

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Fenn, Jeffery W. "Culture under stress : American drama and the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28668.

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The dissertation undertakes an analysis of the dramatic literature engendered by the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, and illustrates how the dramas of that period reflect the stresses and anxieties that assailed contemporary American society. It investigates the formative influences on the drama, the various styles in which it emerged, and the recurring themes and motifs. The thesis proceeds from the premise that the events of the 1960s fractured American society in a manner unknown since the Civil War. It demonstrates that the social, political, and intellectual divisiveness that characterized the society was interpreted in the theatre by dramatic metaphors of fragmentation of the individual and collective psyche, and that this fragmentation was reflected in characters who experienced a collective and individual sense of loss of cultural identity, cohesion and continuity. Included in the examination of the drama is a description of how the social upheaval of the period influenced playwrights to undertake a reassessment of American values and ethics, and to interpret in dramatic form the nature of the trauma of Vietnam for American society. The study includes a discussion of how individual and collective reality is based on cultural conditioning, and how the challenging of cultural myth in an extra-cultural milieu.
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Ellis, Sylvia Ann. "Anglo-American relations and the Vietnam War, 1964-8." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/280.

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It is over thirty years since the U. S. became embroiled in the Vietnam war. Only recently, however, have scholars begun to assess how that involvement in South East Asia affected America's relations with other countries. This thesis examines the impact of the Vietnam war on the relationship between the United States and one of its key allies, Great Britain, during the height of the conflict. It assesses how far Vietnam was a factor in the cooling of transatlantic relations during the mid to late 1960s. Scholars have long noted the decline in importance of Anglo-American relations during the 1960s. It is the contention of this thesis that the Johnson administration's preoccupation with events in South East Asia made the inevitable loosening of ties between the two countries strained and uncomfortable. Although it was not the only problematic issue troubling Anglo-American relations during this period, Vietnam was the one area where there was clear and open conflict. Whereas tensions over sterling and the decision by the British Government to remove its troops from East of Suez prompted feelings of disappointment, sadness and frustration, Vietnam provoked disagreement, misunderstandings, annoyance and accusations of betrayal. At the beginning of their period in office, the British Labour Government desired a `closer' relationship with the United States but by 1968 it was apparent that the Johnson Administration was not amenable to this. This was partly because Britain was now, just one of a number of close allies in Europe; partly because the American President did not develop a personal friendship with the British Prime Minister; but also because the Vietnam conflict had proved an issue - important enough and emotive enough - to cause open and deep disagreement between the two countries.

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Twine, Christopher. "Anglo-American relations and the Vietnam War : 1964-1967." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391246.

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Gilbert, Adam John. "Morality, soldier-poetry, and the American war in Vietnam." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607787.

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Scanlon, Sandra. "The pro-Vietnam War movement during the Nixon administration." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272096.

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Pike, Sara. "Racism at the Movies: Vietnam War Films, 1968-2002." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2008. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/181.

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Films are a reflection of their time, and portrayals of the Vietnamese in film are reflective of the attitudes of American culture and society toward Vietnamese people. Films are particularly important because for many viewers, all they know about Vietnam and the Vietnamese is what they have seen on screen. This is why it is so important to examine the racist portrayals of the Vietnamese that have been presented, where they come from, and how and why they have changed. The significance of this study is that it combines historical studies of issues such as immigration, race relations, and cultural history with literary narratives of these films to explore the reasons why the Vietnamese have been portrayed initially so negatively and why that portrayal is only recently beginning to become more positive. I use six major Hollywood films and three recurring images to explore the ways that the portrayal of the Vietnamese has changed over time. Through a study of the images of the dehumanized enemy, the Vietnamese woman as prostitute, and Vietnamese civilians as backward peasants, the changing nature of racism in the films becomes evident. Blatant racism is found in the films of the 1960s and 1970s due to a long history of racism toward Asians and Asian Americans and the nature of the war itself. The films of the 1980s and beyond, coupled with the waves of refugees and opening of relations with Vietnam begin to show the Vietnamese as human beings. The most recent film of the twenty-first century honors the former enemy. There have been vast improvements, but other advancements remain to be made in race relations on screen and in real life.

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Shipway, Martin. "The road to war : France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 /." Providence (R.I.) : Berghahn books, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388814821.

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Jones, Portland. "Seeing the elephant: Learned helplessness and Vietnam War fiction." Thesis, Jones, Portland (2014) Seeing the elephant: Learned helplessness and Vietnam War fiction. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2014. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/24538/.

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The major part of this dissertation (70%) is a work of fiction titled Seeing the Elephant: a novel set mostly in the Vietnamese Highlands in the period 1962-65. In 2009, Minh, a Vietnamese refugee who is recovering from cancer in Australia recalls memories of his work as a translator for Frank, a member of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV). The two men work closely together and, through their shared experiences, form a relationship that will have a lasting impact on both of their lives. The thesis, Everything will always do nothing: Learned helplessness, trauma and the Vietnam War novel, argues that the concept of learned helplessness adds to the scope of what is currently perceived as traumatic response in literary theory, contributing to resolving the tension between literary trauma theory and the study of trauma within other academic disciplines. Learned helplessness is a condition that can affect trauma sufferers, leading to the belief that “no amount of effort can lead to success” (Eggen and Kauchak, 412). The thesis analyses several Vietnam War novels and examines the issues that are foregrounded by reading representations of trauma through the lens of learned helplessness. The thesis offers insights into the role that culture, gender and place play in traumatic representation. It also examines the role of silence in the text, not as a neurobiological symptom of trauma, but as an outcome of cultural censorship. Finally the thesis examines how, when the concept of learned helplessness is employed in literary analysis different representations of healing allow the analysis to move beyond abreactive, linguistic methods to encompass all behaviour that leads to the restoration of contingency.

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Araújo, Fabrício Paiva. "Memories, traumas and hope: remains of the Vietnam War." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-8UXHZ4.

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This master's thesis aims to analyze how the Vietnam veterans' experiences are represented in Vietnam War narratives. The thesis therefore necessarily discusses the powerful role of the post-war period in the lives of veterans who fought in different periods of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War as a pointless and shameful conflict, and its absurdity, immorality, crimes and atrocities remained in the vets' mind, in the form of irreparable traumas. As methodology, historical and cultural approaches are used. The vets lived an important historical moment, and their war narratives must be considered a legacy of great significance to understand the war narratives through their historical context and to understand cultural and intellectual history through literature. Finally, the thesis intends to show that the representation of the vets' experiences in war narratives is also the result of the vets' strength to transform the traumas of their war experiences into something meaningful.
O objetivo desta pesquisa de mestrado é analisar como a experiência dos veteranos da guerra do Vietnã é representada nos romances que abordam este evento histórico. A dissertação discute o poderoso papel do pós-guerra na vida dos personagens que lutaram em diferentes períodos da guerra do Vietnã. Essa batalha foi um conflito vergonhoso e com objetivos duvidosos. Sua insanidade, imoralidade, crimes e atrocidades permanecem na mente dos veteranos na forma de traumas irreparáveis. Como metodologia,, são usadas abordagens históricas e culturais para mostar a importância desse momento histórico na vida das personagens. Os romances que os veteranos escreveram devem ser considerados um legado significativo para compreender a narrativa de guerra por meio do contexto histórico e entender a história intelectual e cultural através da literatura. Deste modo, esta dissertação busca demonstrar que a representação da experiência dos veteranos nas narrativas de guerra é também uma demonstração do esforço do soldado escritor para transformar os traumas de suas experiências de guerra em algo siginificativo.

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