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... treatment that occurred during these conflicts strongly reflects the redress for U.S. lapses in Vietnam. POW treatment prisoners of war POW state behavior United States Vietnam War Cooper Chester Geneva Conventions humane treatment Johnson Lyndon B National Security Council NSC Nguyen Cao Ky...

... against the “mega-machine” and for its antithesis. This chapter looks at Fromm’s campaign against the Vietnam War; his support for Eugene McCarthy’s candidacy to challenge incumbent President Lyndon Johnson for the 1968 Democratic Party nomination; his advocacy of socialist humanism and participatory...

... a problem, if they were not properly bribed and negotiated with. The ongoing Vietnam War further complicated things, as the smugglers were arrested under suspicion of espionage, and were even erroneously identified as being part of the American military, even as many of them were in actuality draft dodgers...

...This chapter explores how the principle of the “balance sheet” was used by former undersecretary of the State Department George Wildman Ball in his dissent from the escalation of Vietnam War. The principle of “balance sheet” holds that in facing a complex problem, one should step back from...

... during the Vietnam War. The chapter considers two significant issues that have been taken into account: firstly, that the military is treated as another political avenue, and secondly, that the capacity of conventionally trained troops to conduct these operations might be put into question. humanitarian...

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...This essay reviews the book Dispatches, by Michael Herr. Published in 1977, Dispatches is a recollection of Herr's experiences as a foreign correspondent during the Vietnam War. Critics immediately hailed it as the story of the real Vietnam War, the one told from...

... as a reluctant participant in a mass protest against the Vietnam War that took place in October 1967. During that time, the so-called New Journalism was in full bloom. The Armies of the Night stood out in some important ways. In particular, Mailer got as close as he could to the gears of power...

...This chapter describes in detail the reasons why many in the American baby boomer generation turned to a rebellious, drug-based lifestyle despite their stable upbringing. The Vietnam War played a pivotal role in the post-World War II counterculture—not only in the sense that it encouraged many...

...This chapter focuses on the Dissent Channel of the State Department. Despite remaining in the periphery, dissenters during the Johnson administration were not hampered from publicizing images and reports of the Vietnam War which documented the civilian casualties and the low morale of American...

...This chapter discusses Mary McCarthy's critique of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which is reflected in her novel Birds of America. The novel describes the maturation and disillusionment of Peter Levi—an idealistic young man with an upper-middle-class, professional background...