
	Where results make sense

Topic: Military history of Vietnam

Related Topics

Vietnam War

Republic of Vietnam

South Vietnam

Korean War

List of historical events by death count

Black Plague

Black Death

Carbonic acid

Ernst Ruska

United States

	MILITARY HISTORY
		Military history is a vast topic since warfare has been a constant aspect of the general flow of history.
		Vietnam War History: Large section with a narrative of the Vietnam War's battles and campaigns, the political backdrop, covering all aspects of the longest U.S. war.
		The Society for Military History is devoted to stimulating and advancing the study of military history.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history.php3 (528 words)

	Vietnam War - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Vietnam was a largely Buddhist nation (two-thirds were Buddhist in the Southern half), while Diem and much of his administration were Roman Catholic, and Diem was criticized as being out of touch with his citizens.
		Vietnam's Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs released figures on April 3, 1995, reporting that 1.1 million fighters—Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers—and nearly 2 million civilians in the north and the south were killed between 1954 and 1975.
		Vietnam War: the most commonly-used term in English, it implies that the location was chiefly within the borders of the nation (which is disputed, as many regard the scope as including at least Cambodia); it sidesteps the issue of the lack of an American declaration of war.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/v/i/e/Vietnam_War_129f.html (10909 words)

	Amazon.ca: Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: Books: Stanley I. Kutler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Organized in the traditional manner of alphabetical entries of individuals, places, and events, this work merits special mention for the critical nature of the writing and the inclusion of ten authoritative essays on political, social, and military aspects of the period (e.g., the antiwar movement, art and literature, and colonialism).
		A chronology outlines Vietnam's early history, the French colonial era, growing U.S. intervention, full-scale war, and the aftermath, concluding with U.S. recognition in 1995.
		In the encyclopedia portion of the volume are major essays on such topics as the antiwar movement, art and literature, military strategy and tactics, drugs and drug use, the media and the war, diplomacy, American and Vietnamese perspectives, and the order of battle for various forces with units, commanders, and dates.
	www.amazon.ca /Encyclopedia-Vietnam-War-Stanley-Kutler/dp/0132769328 (667 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Vietnam military service history and prostate cancer
		Vietnam veterans have been studied in Australia and elsewhere, in an attempt to explain how service-related experience may affect their health and well-being in both the short and long-term [2].
		Similarly, family history had an increased effect in the aggressive prostate cancer group, for a father with a history of prostate cancer the OR was 2.09; (95% CI 0.87 – 5.00) and for a brother with prostate cancer the OR was 2.13; (95% CI 0.89 – 5.10).
		The role of family history is one of the few factors that do have a consistent positive association with prostate cancer [5].
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2458/6/75 (3391 words)

	VietnamWar.com:The Vietnam War - America's Longest War, American Soldiers Fought and Died Here to Defend Our Freedom. ...
		The Vietnam War was the longest military conflict in U.S. history.
		The Vietnam War was a military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, involving the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) in conflict with United States forces and the South Vietnamese army.
		Ultimately, however, the United States failed to achieve its goal, and in 1975 Vietnam was reunified under Communist control; in 1976 it officially became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
	www.vietnamwar.com (964 words)

	A Brief Military History of Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The VC were being aided by North Vietnam which in turn was being aided by the Soviet Union through the port of Haiphong and to some extent by China through their common border.
		The first official date for "in country" service in Vietnam is given as Dec. 22nd, 1961, but it is known that Eisenhower sent some special forces to Vietnam in 1960 and stationed some Navy ships offshore before JFK became President.
		A cease-fire agreement was signed by the U.S., North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the VC on Jan. 27th, 1973 which called for the withdrawl of all U.S. forces and the repatriation of POWs.
	storiesfromvietnam.com /SMF/index.php?topic=11.0 (2858 words)

	Vietnam War
		The American military effort provoked stiff domestic and international opposition, led to strained civil-military relations at home, and called into question many of the assumptions that had dominated US foreign and military policy since 1945, but failed to compel the enemy to do its will.
		Nixon resumed bombing of North Vietnam in response to the North Vietnamese 1972 Easter offensive, and mined North Vietnamese ports and bombed Hanoi and Haiphong in late 1972.
		South Vietnam's military defeat tended to obscure the crucial inability of this massive military enterprise to compensate for Saigon's political shortcomings.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/vietnam2.htm (4344 words)

	Vietnam Yesterday & Today: History Websites
		Included on this useful site are documents relating to the U.S. Army in Vietnam, the electronic battlefield, special forces, a history of the NVA, biographies of General Giap, Jane Fonda, Hanoi Hannah, Australian and New Zealand forces in Vietnam, a history of Air America, glossary, and a history of the Medal of Honor.
		This useful history research site utilizes the Conversations with History archive, to study the complex environment in which decisions were made regarding Vietnam and American participation in the war the causes and consequences of U.S. decisions.
		The Vietnam War Internet Project is an educational organization providing information and documents about the various Indochina Wars and to the collection and electronic publication on the web of oral histories and memoirs of both those who served in and those who opposed those conflicts.
	www.oakton.edu /user/~wittman/histlink.htm (3816 words)

	Military History - Veteran's Stories - Vietnam War - Clarence Moore
		In the fall of 1967, my crew and I were returning to Dragon Mountain from Dak To, South Vietnam.
		As my crew chief was refueling the aircraft, a grunt came to the crew chief and asked if we could drop off a couple of packs (people needing a ride) at Pleiku.
		Vietnam was divided into four military regions; II Corps was the central portion of the country.
	www.military.com /History_Content/1,14476,his_vet_vietnamwar\|Clarence_Moore,00.html (810 words)

	Military History - Veteran's Stories - Vietnam War - Barry Prowell
		Military History - Veteran's Stories - Vietnam War - Barry Prowell
		The platoon was guarding a bridge one night midway between Pleiku and Kontum.
		I figured since I had lost bladder control when the tracers were flying by my head that it would take at least that long for my pants to dry.
	www.military.com /History_Content/1,14476,his_vet_vietnamwar\|Barry_Prowell,00.html (423 words)

	Justin's Links: Military History Magazine
		I'm interested to see what Timothy Burke, Swarthmore college history and popular culture professor, had to say about these publications.
		Duke William of Normandy threatened from the south, but first the Saxon king had to deal with his brother, Tostig, backed by the fearsome Norwegian army of Harald Hardraade." 1066 I haven't studied since I was in fifth grade doing a medieval unit.
		Recounting old battles amidst advertisements for "Testosterall" and military commemorative art make me leery however - this is a publication for people who seem to revere controlled articulations of violence.
	www.links.net /daze/03/04/15/military_history_magazine.html (340 words)

	Vietnam War Information at the Wisconsin Historical Society
		The Wisconsin Historical Society's collections on the Vietnam era extend well beyond the state's own role and richly document both the military operations and the political and social ramifications of those operations.
		The Society Library maintains general histories, unit histories, personal narratives, journal articles, newspaper accounts and government documents related to the conflict.
		The Library houses general histories about virtually every aspect of the Vietnam War including battles, major figures, military units, armaments, diplomacy, and home front life.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /military/vietnam/index.asp (230 words)

	Vietnam War Archives Search Strategies at the Wisconsin Historical Society
		The appropriate search term for Vietnam War collections is Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, but entering only that term yields a very large result.
		Similarly combining the terms Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 with journalists identifies collections related to the news coverage of the war and related domestic activities.
		Although quite distinct from the above, another major strength of the holdings is collections documenting public opinion on the war, and the antiwar movement.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /military/vietnam/strategies_archives.asp (296 words)

	Military History Online
		The main theme of Churchill's speech was to call for close cooperation, even a military alliance, between the United States and Western Europe, to ensure that the Iron Curtain, which became the term for both the symbolic and real dividing line between democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe, moved no further to the west.
		History is full of incidents that changed the historical flow of events from one course to another.
		Yet history has more examples of missed opportunities that, had they been taken advantage of at the time, could have saved the world from untold trails and tribulations.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com (2451 words)

	Military History Online - Military History Book Store
		Description: The Mamluks were, at one distinct point in history, the greatest body of fighting men in the world and the quintessence of the mounted warrior.
		Description: The epic history of a bloody campaign that determined the course of the Civil War--and forged two of America's greatest military leaders.
		Deep in the winter of 1862, on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, two extraordinary military leaders faced each other in an epic clash that would transform them both and change the course of American history forever.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /bookstore (879 words)

	History of Military Museum - Vietnam Attractions and Beauty Spots, Vietnam Green Travel, Vietnam Travel, Explore ...
		Military History Museum is located at No. 28A Dien Bien Phu Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi.
		-The history of the Vietnamese nation and the birth of the Vietnam People’s Army.
		-The Vietnam People’s Army on the path to a regular modern army.
	www.vietnamgreentravel.com /spot-detail.asp?qSTid=213 (197 words)

	The Miami Valley Military History Museum: Vietnam
		(Right) The Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross; the Vietnamese government issued the award to all units subordinate to Military Assistance Command (MACV) during the period 8 February 1962 and 28 March 1973 and to U.S. Army Vietnam and its subordinate units for the period 20 July 1965 to 28 March 1973.
		The 5th Special Forces group initially deployed troops to Vietnam on a temporary basis in 1962; the headquarters moved to Vietnam in 1964 as the unit intensified it's training of the South Vietnamese Special Forces and assistance in battling the Viet Cong.
		Barry Sadler was a Green Beret who did a hitch in Vietnam, wrote a few songs about the experience and recorded an album that vaulted him into unlikely fame - the most well known being "Ballad of the Green berets".
	www.donet.com /~mconrad/vietnam4.htm (447 words)

	America in Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		By the logic of culture and geography, the middle Mekong should be the heart of a Lao nation encompassing most of what is today northwestern Thailand, and so indeed it was from the mid-fifteenth century to the late seventeenth.
		In the ninth and tenth centuries, Khymer kings ruled most of Indochina west of the Animates from their capital at Angkor Wat, but the kingdom contracted under Thai and Vietnamese pressure and was in decline when Europeans reached Southeast Asia.
		The predictability of the monsoon and its rains is central to the Vietnamese way of life and to the military history of Vietnam, for military forces move with difficulty, if at all, during the wet monsoon.
	ehistory.osu.edu /vietnam/books/aiv/0003.cfm (630 words)

	American Military History picture Posters Photographs Famous Battles picture Posters Photographs Memorial Day Poster ...
		American Military History picture Posters Photographs Famous Battles picture Posters Photographs Memorial Day Poster Posters United States Military History
		American Military History Posters and Prints, and Memorial Day Posters
		ABOUT US United States Military History art print poster series
	www.foundersofamerica.com /US_MILITARY_HISTORY_POSTERS_US_MILITARY_HISTORY_PRINTS/AMERICAN_MILITARY_HISTORY_POSTERS_AND_PRINTS.htm (327 words)

	The Miami Valley Military History Museum: Vietnam
		This DI is an example of the "beer can" style insignias locally produced in Vietnam, so-called because they were made from thin, stamped metals and hand painted or enameled.
		The draft actually predated Vietnam by nearly 30 years; President Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 to create the first peacetime draft and formally established the Selective Service System as an independent Federal agency.
		The draft ended in 1973 with the creation of an all-volunteer military although registration was resumed in 1980 in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
	www.donet.com /~mconrad/vietnam7.htm (711 words)

	Marching Through Time - Vietnam Living History - Military Photos
		I just got back from the Marching Through Time living history event and thought that some of you might be interested in Pics of the Vietnam living History group.
		From what I saw, the reaction from the real vietnam vets was overwhelmingly positive.
		Legio XX and XXIV were there as well as an Iron Age Celt, a Dacian and a Thracian.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=79356 (211 words)

	Military History, Joint, Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Space History Resources and Documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Whispers of Warriors - The Importance of History to the Military Professional (
		History Studies, incl by region/country, WWW Virtual Library
		Vietnam Studies, The War in the Northern Provinces, 1966-1968, Center of Military History
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/awc-hist.htm (4418 words)

	Vets With A Mission - History of Vietnam
		This site offers much reading and research on Vietnam during its war years, as well as history on its development as a nation.
		It includes unit history of Marines, Army, Navy and Air Force units that participated in the Vietnam War.
		A section is devoted to the Tet Offensive of 1968, one of the most misunderstood battles of the war.
	www.vwam.com /vets/hisintro.html (206 words)

	Internet Resources for the Study of Vietnam
		Vietnam Remembered: CBS News-NY Times Poll, Feb. 1985
		Vietnam War Memorial - DB of US war casualties in Vietnam
		Centre for the Study of the Vietnam Conflict
	www.idbsu.edu /history/swoods/vietnam.html (81 words)

	ALIC - Military Resources: Vietnam War
		Michael Jay Friedman's essay from the Essays in History (vol.
		Reflections on the Wall: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
		To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, the staff of the Ford Presidential Library reviewed for possible declassification nearly 40,000 pages of National Security Advisor files.
	www.archives.gov /research/alic/reference/military/vietnam-war.html (132 words)

	English Books > History/War > Military - Vietnam War
		History/War > Military - Vietnam War listing of 509 titles.
		U.S. Navy In The Vietnam War: An Illustrated History
		Prices subject to change to be advised on confirmation of order.
	www.netstoreusa.com /books/index/bkbhl707U.shtml (192 words)

	Vietnam War History Page
		CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962-1968
		Tet Offensive: Turning Point in the Vietnam War
		Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project (2)
	www.military-graphics.com /war4.html (102 words)

	Vietnam History PIKE Military Research
		It requires hard work, experience and expertise because you are making an investment into your history.
		A detailed history of the enemy attack on this provincial capital during the Tet Offensive.
		A military study which looks at these two decisive battlefields to determine the North Vietnamese threat to Khe Sanh.
	www.militaryunits.com /vietnam.htm (2768 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)