11. “In the Vietnam Era”, “In today’s military”, “In contrast to” 12. He uses the word combat over and over throughout his argument to emphasize the issue at hand as much as possible. 13. “If you were unfortunate enough to be drafted, you at least knew that the nation drew the line at one year of combat” is an example
(b) How far was President Kennedy determined to use military forces in South Vietnam in order to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia? There is two sides to each argument in this answer one side will show how determined Kennedy was to using military force and the other side would be to show how he tried to use other options. Firstly I am going to describe how I think that Kennedy was determined or willing to use military force. Firstly he started out by carrying on Eisenhower’s plans for guerrilla warfare by training the South Vietnamese army and giving them supplies and equipment to try and fight the war like that instead of using American troops even though he criticised Eisenhower’s soft defence against communism but still carried on with some of his plans. After the failure of that he introduced things such as the strategic hamlets (Agrovilles) which were villages that were surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by troops, to isolate National Liberation Front (NFL) guerrillas from political recruits and other responses.
The main objective of the defence policy was to deploy forces overseas and to keep any threat as far away as possible to prevent a potential enemy from reaching Australia. From the policy, the government wanted to fight the threat of communism away from Australia and contain it before it got too strong and reached Australia. Therefore, following the ‘Forward Defence,’ policy, Australia was needed to be involved in the Vietnam War to prevent the threat of communism spreading to Australia. There are many reasons for Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The key reason was fear of communism, especially since the ‘Domino Theory,’ supported the threat of communism reaching Australia.
The idea of “containment” and not letting the Soviet Union gain influence and control of the region was perhaps the biggest and only factor for the United States assistance in South Vietnam. In its quest for world supremacy, the US felt it had to do anything in its power to ensure that they would remain on top, even if it meant fighting the Soviets in proxy wars like that of Korea and Vietnam. From a strategic and political view, the war was an absolutely necessary and even though many feel the US had lost, they were better off than had they just remained passive and allowed Communism to spread. More than anything, the Vietnam War was a message to the rest of the world that the US could, and more importantly would, engage in conflict in attempt to ensure that democracy remain the prevalent political and economical ideology existent across the
President Nixon's Watergate scandal only seemed to fortify this distrust. Congress, in an effort to prevent another conflict like Vietnam in the future, passed the War Powers Act. This stated that Congress had to be informed that troops would be into possible combat situations, and had to take action of those troops within 60 days (Schulzinger, 1999). It would seem as though the Vietnam War and all of the battles our nation had to endure at this fragile moment in history would help define our nation. The United States was torn in many factions at that time period, Civil Rights Movement being a major one.
President Bush’s war campaign into Iraq is not justified under article fifty-one of the United Nations charter. That article which gives countries the right to invade another country in order to protect them cannot be used to justify this case. In this war, The United States of America was in no clear and present danger. The strike, which was described by government figureheads as a preemptive move to counteract the chance of Iraqi aggression, falls well beyond the boundaries of fair self defensive
On the other side the aims of the NV government and their terrorist organisation the VC did not alter as they still aimed to persuade the SV government to vote for Vietnam to become a communist country. The SV government’s aims after ORT was to stay an anti-communist country and make sure the ARVN could defend themselves without the military help form the
You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. "If this was the true feeling of militarism in America, then militarism assuredly played a role in America entering the war, because America may have subconsciously wanted to prove their strength by helping in this conflict.All in all, there is not one, certain reason that completely explains why America entered World War I. However, there are many reasons, that when combined, form a very reasonable explanation as to why Americans entered the war. This explanation includes events varying from being attacked by outside countries while they were making an attempt at neutrality, to America's relations with Britain, and even inclusive of the possibility that America may have only been trying to prove something to themselves. Conclusively, America entered the Great War because of a variety of reasons.
Introduction I’m written an essay about the Vietnam War and why it became a war between USA and North Vietnam. I also included in this essay how the war propaganda affects the support of war in both USA and in North Vietnam. Aim and scope First in this essay I have chosen a research question which sounds like this: Why did North Vietnam win the war against USA, and how did the war- and antiwar propaganda. I did choose this research question since I first find it very interesting that a such a minor country like North Vietnam could defeat a superpower like USA, secondly I narrowing down the investigation very much since I don’t have to write anything after the war ends but I have to write more on the events occurring before the outbreak
Richard Nixon Vietnamize the war (train the South Vietnamese to fight their own and the U.S. support them with bombing raids), mine North harbor, bombing and invasion of Cambodia and Laos ( Kent University demonstration Release of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg revealed the war unwinnable, but presidents ignored the conclusion of CIA Nixon tried to stop its release( New York Times Co. v. United States S C: A free press was more important than keeping secrets of the government End draft (voluntary army), 26th Amendment reduced the voting age to 18 Congress passed the War Powers Act which prevented the president from sending troops to a foreign country for more than 60 days without a vote by Congress. “Ping Pong Diplomacy” with China Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty (limit defensive missiles) & Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) (limit offensive missiles) ( Détente with USSR All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward Jimmy Carter: Return of the Panama Canal to Panama, Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, failure in the Iran Hostage