The Columbia History of the Vietnam War is a collection of 14 essays by respected scholars that examines historical themes with contemporary relevance
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Review – The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation, by Christina Schwenkel
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam, by Christina Schwenkel, describes the ongoing struggle inside today’s Vietnam over memory and history. Today the struggle is between American capitalism and Vietnamese socialism; previously the same struggle took place on the battlefields. of Southeast Asia.
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America Goes to War – In Louisiana
In operational terms, America’s three great maneuvers of 1941 used an approach would have been familiar to previous generations of U.S. field commanders, especially Union generals in the Civil War.
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MHQ Reviews: The Civil War of 1812
Thomas B. Allen reviews Alan Taylor’s book The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies.
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Pre Civil War Peace Conference
As secession fever spreads through the South, political patriarchs try to avert war—-but at what price?
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True Causes of the Civil War
Irreconcilable Differences Simmering animosities between North and South signaled an American apocalypse Any man […]
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Deliberate Distortions Still Obscure Understanding of the Vietnam War
Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr., the founding editor of Vietnam magazine, clears up some of the deliberate distortions that continue to obscure understanding of the Vietnam War
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Wild West Magazine Article Wins Spur Award
Roger Di Silvestro won a coveted Spur Award from Western Writers of America for his nonfiction article about Theodore Roosevelt, “Teddy’s Ride to Recovery,” which appeared in the October 2009 Wild West magazine.
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Interview: P.W. Singer / Wired for War
P.W. Singer—a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution and a former consultant to the departments of State and Defense—explores the history, development and current state of military robotics in his new book Wired for War.
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How American Operatives Saved the Man Who Started the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh guerrilla fighters, led by future NVA General Vo Nguyen Giap, were allies of the Americans and given training by the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, in an effort to defeat the Japanese during the waning days of World War II