Viet Cong Essays

Throughout the history of the United States, war has become a very questionable topic. The simple idea of war already exudes a barbaric resolve to conflict, but yet it still occurs and even gets support from the public most of the time. Out of all of the many wars the United States has been through, one of the few that stood out to be very unpopular among the public was the Vietnam War. Of course, war itself already contracts negative opinions from many people, but the Vietnam War, in particular

In A Viet Cong Memoir, we receive excellent first hands accounts of events that unfolded in Vietnam during the Vietnam War from the author of this autobiography: Truong Nhu Tang. Truong was Vietnamese at heart, growing up in Saigon, but he studied in Paris for a time where he met and learned from the future leader Ho Chi Minh. Truong was able to learn from Ho Chi Minh’s revolutionary ideas and gain a great political perspective of the conflicts arising in Vietnam during the war. His autobiography

Nostalgia and homecoming are two linked themes, both of them relate to the subject of returning home, either just in thought or physically coming home, and the emotions that are stirred up by that return. The movie Cold Mountain demonstrates that set of emotions that people often experience while being away from home, for whatever reason, and while trying to get back home. The movie takes place during a civil war and all of the characters are experiencing feelings of home sickness and nostalgia as

LINH PHIL 1301-73432 MARCH 4, 2018 Philosophy Reflection Paper Road to Selfdom The Road to Selfdom is a great essay has write by Hayek- a famous economist and philosopher. Friedrich A. Hayek was a member of the Austrian School of economics. Road of Selfdom published in 1944, Hayek wrote it during World War II; and it became an economic and political classic expanding one’s thought process. This is a long essay and hard to understand all means, analysis and message that Hayek want to show to the

Children have always had a mystical way of viewing the world in which they see the most genuine beauty in everything around them while the people who have come of age struggled to see that exact same beauty they once saw. The naiveness of children is something envied by those who have been subjected to life’s many trials, but being relieved of the naïve also opened doors for these adults to form a new perception of the world around them. Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” shows that retaining

The Hateful Eight is the eighth entry of film through the ultimate writer and director, Quentin Tarantino. He has stated that he will only be making 2 more films, which in a total becomes 10 films throughout his wondrous career. It is so sad and relieving to believe only 2 more films will be inclined from the fantastic writer and director Quentin Tarantino. Because this film is a welcome addition to fans of himself and to the beloved audiences that makes it one of the finest western films of the

Innocence is one of the most characteristic attributes of young children. When this is taken away from a child in quick succession, this is called loss of innocence. At the beginning of Persepolis, Marjane is a young child, easily impressionable, and innocent. However, as the book continues, she idolizes her ambition to become a rebellious child. The events happening at the time were also heightening her loss of innocence, with wars and difficult situations being plentiful. With this in mind, It

The Viet Nam war was among the most significant events that occurred in the 20th century. The recollection of the war through memoirs and diaries gives readers around the world a glimpse into these horrifying and personal events as well as the Vietnamese mindsets during the time. A Viet Cong Memoir by Truong Nhu Tang, The Twenty-five Year Century by Lam Quang Thi, and the diary Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram give intimate, yet differing perspectives of the conflict that shook the

I strongly believe that technology will never be a decisive advantage for a victory in war. There are other factors that will give an added advantage in claiming a victory in war. Through the Vietnam war, there is evidence that the technologically advanced US Army lost the only War that they have participated in the history of United State of America. Such factors will be the Man, Strategy or tactics used in a familiar environment to its advantage will give the much-needed victory in war. Vietnam

authority around the world. There are many arguments that US tactics were inefficiently used. To begin with they used heavy bombings which did damage North Vietnams supply routes the Ho Chi Mhin trail but it did not stop the trail which provided the Viet Congs with equipment and weapons from neighboring countries. It's an embarrassment that the US failed to stop countries such as Cambodia and Laos since the

Chi Minh trail as well as killing the Viet Cong. This was done using cluster bombs which exploded mid air and released smaller bombs. US also conducted regular air strikes over North Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder which involved bombing the North naval bases. They used defoliants such as Agent orange and Napalm to clear the landscape and destroy the jungles and forests to find the Viet Cong’s location. This tactic was ineffective because the Viet Cong would hide and live in the vast tunnels

The fantasy does not always make the pain go away. In the Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien in the vignette, The Man I Killed, O'Brien describes a Viet Cong soldier whom he has killed, using meticulous physical detail, including descriptions of his wounds. Then O'Brien imagines the life story of this man and imagines that he was a scholar who felt an obligation to defend his village. In the story, The Man I Killed, Tim O'Brien uses diction, repetition, and imagery to to convey his feelings of guilt

Explain how the significance of the Battle of Long Tan and how the Australians won. The Battle of Long Tan, which took place on 18th August 1966, was a highly symbolic battle for not only the Australian troops and as a country, but also for the Viet-Cong and the communists trying to take over Vietnam. Due to the fact of an outnumbered Australian troop force, this battle seemed to be nearly impossible to come out on top off, where roughly Two Thousand to Three Thousand Vietnamese troops, against

devastating loss of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) at the Battle of AP Bac, despite their superior numbers and technology, was a turning point in the Vietnam War as it revealed the shortcomings of the South Vietnamese army, acknowledged the Viet Cong as a formidable foe, and the information gap between the media and government officials. To fully understand the Battle of Ap Bac, context must be provided as to what was going on before the battle. For one, the battle was supposed to be a morale

On January 30th , 1965, Viet Cong forces coordinated a series of attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in southern Vietnam. The point of the Tet Offensive was not just to gain territories in southern Vietnam, but to also push back US involvement in the war. The Tet Offensive was chosen on a very particular day, Lunar New Year. In the past, during wartime, Lunar New Year was recognized as a truce, so each side could celebrate with no fear of attack. North Viet Cong general Vo Nguyen Giap chose

The Viet Cong were the communist regime in North Vietnam that were supported by China and the Soviet Union. The South Vietnam regime were a noncommunist regime that were primarily allied by the United States. These Vietnamese communists were a military branch of the National Liberation Front. Before the Vietnam War Vietnam was struggling to get independence from Chinese and French. The country then was under the control of the Chinese and French. The Viet Minh led the fight for

war against North Vietnam, they were a huge military machine against a peasant army, yet this huge underestimating of the Viet Cong

percent of the people in South Vietnam supported the Viet Cong. According to Marilyn Young, “When the government responded to small engagements with massive displays of force, villagers who might have otherwise have been hesitant to support the Front were enraged”(73). They wanted to win the hearts and mind of the people but yet they forced them to live in the hamlets by gun point. The goal of the Strategic Hamlet program was to separate the Viet Cong guerrillas and supporters from the peasant population

and were powered by a small solid-fuel rocket engine” (Carl Otis Schuster, “Air to Ground missiles: Vietnam War”). The Bullpups lacked in range thus not allowing them to be useful due to the longer range of the surface to air missiles used by the Viet Cong, or the North Vietnamese. In reaction to this the US built the AGM-45 Shrike antiradiation missile, which had the range, firepower, and speed to destroy the Vietnamese surface to air missiles. The US army also used air to ground missiles, specifically

On January 31st 1968, the Tet Offensive, named after the Vietnamese lunar new year, occurred. It was a series of 126 fierce attacks on South Vietnamese towns. 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces who supported a communist state performed the attacks. They were led by General Vo Nguyen Giap, the leader of Communist Peoples Army of Vietnam. The attacks were led against the Southern Vietnamese and American forces led by General William