America In Cambodia

George Herring 's article " The legacy of Vietnam" talks about the military clash between the communist North Vietnam, backed by its allies and the government of South Vietnam, backed by the United States and other countries that are anti-communist that happened in Vietnam during Richard Nixon 's presidency. The Vietnam War was a terrible war, especially for Vietnamese because a millions of them died during the war. The author not just describes the war itself; he also analyzes the killing and the attack that occurred during the war. In general the Vietnam War was the most costly war contrast to other wars and it was the most shocking eras in American history. The Vietnam War had an impact in American history. It brought fear from the war

The Cambodian Genocide has the historical context of the Vietnam War and the country’s own civil war. During the Vietnam War, leading up to the conflicts that would contribute to the genocide, Cambodia was used as a U.S. battleground for the Vietnam War. Cambodia would become a battle ground for American troops fighting in Vietnam for four years; the war would kill up

The first thing that one must do when discussing Vietnam is remember the historical context in which the conflict took place. The United States and it's Free World allies were attempting to confine the Communist Bloc, which by this time included both the Soviet Union and China, and keep it from expanding into surrounding nations. The U.S. felt that if the Communists were not allowed to expand, they would eventually collapse under the weight of their centralized economy. So in order to accomplish the policy of containment, the U.S. need to ally itself with nations bordering Communist ones. However, one of the most important aspects of political alliances is the trust each must have in the

In Nixon’s effort to end the war, his first policy was to send a message to Hanoi that he meant business. His policy consisted of escalated strategic bombings near the border of Cambodia in hopes to get the North Vietnamese to fear that the United States was capable of doing anything to achieve victory. Even Johnson was skeptical of expanding the war into Cambodia but Nixon’s first policy in full effect. Unfortunately, America was blinded by the corruptness of Nixon’s “peaceful presidency” since

Fearing that the U.S. peace movement would use the bombings to build opposition to the war to new heights, Nixon tried to keep the bombings secret. But in May, with U.S. forces taking heavy losses on “Hamburger Hill” in the A-Shau Valley, news of the bombings leaked out. It was time to change the subject. (Karnow 1983, 591, 601)

The Vietnam War, once called “the most disastrous of all America’s undertakings over the whole 200 years of history” by George Kennan (Brinkley, p. 773) was a war where the United States entered to support South Vietnam. The goal was to help South Vietnam maintain an anticommunist government. What began as providing aid, turned into intervention, and then full-fledged involvement. In the beginning, few Americans protested America’s involvement in the war, however this drastically changed as time continued. Peace

got rid of Norodom Sihanouk who was the king of Cambodia at the time. He was all for neutrality. U.S. put General Lon Nol to power in Cambodia in March of 1970. In the spring of 1970, Nixon authorized bombings in Cambodia and sent both U.S. and SVA (South Vietnamese Army) troops across the border, entirely without the consent or informed of Congress. Nixon secretly bombed Cambodia, a neutral country that the North Vietnam used for sanctuary. During the war, young people were being drafted tremendously in the United States. This angered the youth and protests were being made. During the Kent State protest, four students were shot dead by the Ohio National

Brian Creech. (2013) “The Rising Tide of War”: Cambodian Bombings and the Discourses of American Military Power in Time. The Communication Review 16:4, pages 189-210.

From the beginning, the people of America had a distrust in the government when they first began to involve themselves in the Vietnam War. The United States feared that communism would overtake the world, and, unlike the majority of its citizens, the government of America felt it their responsibility to prevent this from happening. An opportunity presented itself in which America could aid in the prevention of the overtaking of Vietnam by a communist government. South Vietnam and North Vietnam were separated at the seventeenth parallel, and South Vietnam wanted it to remain that way and to become its own independent country and democracy. However, North Vietnam and its leader, Ho Chi Minh, wanted to unite both North and South Vietnam under communist rule. In 1954, President Eisenhower put into effect America’s plan to halt the spread of communism. Eisenhower sent a letter to Ngo Dinh Diem, the Prime Minister of South Vietnam, with America’s plans and motives in efforts to gain the trust of a possible new American ally. The citizens of America saw this, not as an opportunity, but as a danger to their precious country. The American government viewed South Vietnam’s situation as a cry for

Since World War II, Conflicts in Asia have played a major role in the Cold War and American foreign policy. One conflict was the Vietnam War, the effects of this conflict were not only felt within the region of Southeast Asia, for example Norman Morrison was a Baltimore Quaker and performed the act of self-immolation at the age of 31 to protest the US’s involvement in Vietnam, this is an example of how it was felt even in the United States and not just in Vietnam. These repercussions had a great impact on American society and even our foreign policy.

To begin with, the operation of invading Cambodia came into the greater scheme of the Vietnam War. This all began in 1955 with The Communist North Vietnamese wanting a union with the Anti-Communist South Vietnamese, which was promptly refused. As a result war broke out and now the South Vietnamese not only had to deal with the north but also with a communist supporting group in the south known as the Viet Cong. This intensified the war as they were a guerrilla based group that would repeatedly ambush and attack the south at night.

This volume contains the U.S. explanation for the war, a review of Vietnam’s history and the war, and U.S. armed forces, as well as various problems during the war, including drug and racial problems, desertion, sedition, and treason. There is information about POW treatment, POWs and MIAs, the CIA and the drug trade, war crimes, PTSD, Moral Injury, and history lessons not learned. This volume also contains a brief photo view of some aspects of events, in South Vietnam, in 1968; a decisive year in the war.

The brutal and vicious strategies used during the second Indochina war eloquently were brought to light by James W. McCoy in “Secrets of the Viet Cong.” McCoy describe the stories and acts that occurred during the second Indochina war that had taken place on all sides of the field. The main focus of this book is the U.S pitted against the V.C as well as the many other obstacles faced in the country of Vietnam. War in general is a very interesting topic, especially the Vietnam war. The fact that the superpower America had failed to compete and to win against the small country of North Vietnam makes this specific war as interesting as it is. Not to mention the warfare tactics and strategies used by either side makes it an enthralling topic to

“I lost 17,000 men, almost 10 percent of the total Hmong population," General Vang Pao said. "The Hmong sacrificed the most in the war and were the ones who suffered the most” (Vietnam War 'secret Army' Chief Vang Pao Dies in US). The C.I.A. recruited the Hmong as their allies when the communist Pathet Lao joined the Laotian government because the U.S. feared that the neighboring countries would fall into communism too. During the Vietnam War, negotiators from different countries agreed that Laos would remain neutral under the Geneva (Thompson). But because the United States feared the spread of communism, the C.I.A. directed a covert operation in Laos known as the Secret War. The Hmong people were abandoned, forgotten and treated poorly after

At its core, Vietnamization was a way to “de-Americanize” (Willbanks, 2004) Vietnam and win the war and peace. The goals of Vietnamization were to improve and strengthen South Vietnamese armed forces, help establish a strong leader, and shift the combat from the U.S. troops to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) while “slowly withdrawing the U.S. troops out of Vietnam” (Nixon, 1971). Ending the war was the ultimate goal, but was impossible to achieve due to North Vietnamese combat groups performing series of attacks on the South. This resulted in Nixon allowing bombings to occur in the Cambodian base camps where the North Vietnamese kept their weapons and supplies in 1970. When the bombings became public, Nixon argued that they were necessary “to keep pressure on the enemy until the Vietnamization strategy took root” (History.com, 2010) and for “victory on the battlefield” (Kimball, 2014). Both the Cambodian bombings