Yet the war and its consequences affected foreign policy for years, and still do…the deployment to Bosnia, bombing of Serbia, and deployment to Kosovo again raised fears of "another Vietnam." (Attarian 2000, p
As one commentator notes; "…the cost of getting out must be judged against the cost the president could expect to incur if he chose the only other real option: major escalation." (Logevall, 2004) Central to this debate however are the social factors that played a major role in the eventful decision by government to leave Vietnam
Also, for the first time, interviewed soldiers expressed their frustration with the progress of the war. (Television Coverage of the Vietnam War II) 5
intervention was met by escalation in the size and intensity of opposition to the war here at home'. (Vickers, 1989, p
One of these covert actions sparked the decisions that led to the preparing of the turning point. Operation 34A directed the American trained Vietnamese manned patrol boats to attack radar stations in North Vietnam (Moss, 2010)
The constant buildup of American naval personnel in Vietnam led Northern Vietnam to decide to send more forces into the area. The knowledge of Operation 34A led to a decision by North Vietnam to go after the destroyer (Allen, 2001)
S. F8 Crusader jets off an aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga which went after the three Soviet torpedo boats destroying one of them (Duiker, 1994)
Together, these elements will highlight the impact of this policy and its long-term effects. ("Effects of Restrictive Rules," 1995) (Lewy, 1978) Soldiers in the field: In the field, the ROE became more restrictive as the war continued
For some Vietnam veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the conflict in the Middle East intensified their flashbacks to traumatic incidents in Vietnam and reactivated feelings of frustration, anger, and depression. Even for Vietnam veterans who are not suffering from PTSD, the conflict may have reawakened memories -- some positive, some negative, and most long-repressed -- from the Vietnam era (Kobrick, 1993)
The need for the localization strategy is give by the fact that Win-win, as well as any other economic agent, cannot simply adopt a strategic model as it arises within the specialized literature. It as such has to customize it in order to meet its unique situation, such as organizational size, resource capabilities or features of the market onto which the strategy would be employed (Grant, 2008)
Localization is most appropriate when there are substantial differences across nations with regard to consumer tastes and preferences and where cost pressures are too intense. By customizing the product offering to the local demands, the company increases the value of that product in the local market" (Hill and Jones, 2009)
S. policy was set to support the "free" peoples of the world -- and the definition of such be American style democracy (Belmonte, 2010)
policy held that every country allowed to "go red" would domino into other countries. Once tensions rose in Korea, the idea of "going red" became even more of a foreign policy issue (Damms, 2002)
R. This would, of course, put Japan, India and Oceania at risk (Davidson, 1991)
R. developed, Africa began to be decolonialized throwing the economic and political situation out of balance, the Korean War brought the United States into another global conflict, tensions heated up in Egypt (the Suez Canal Crisis) and Cuba (Castro and the Cuban Revolution), and America went through a turbulent time with Anti-Communist feelings and Senator Joseph McCarthy's accusations and focus on "reds in the State Department" (Hanson, 1998)
We see the Christian World vs. The Islam World -- we see Syria the same way we see Afghanistan -- yet both have unique cultures, a unique and complex history and view towards outsiders, with a commonality in the basic tenets of religion (Helding and McGrew, 2007,134-6)
The term itself applies to human behavior in a number of dimensions -- psychologically, sociologically, certainly political, and cultural. This phenomenon of cultural misunderstanding was quite apparent in the post-World War II conflicts, particularly that of the regional conflicts in Vietnam post-1950 (Killick, 1999)
It began with the liberal Democrats who "could not long support a war against a revolutionary movement, no matter how reactionary the domestic tactics of that movement." (Kissinger) In other words, liberal Democrats could not long support a war against fellow socialists and by the late 1960's, their opposition to the war was quite substantial
involvement in the Vietnam war from 1945 to 1968 (McLaughlin). Vietnam War thus through media has pictured the terror of war to the western societies and they started questioning about it and were interested in knowing about it (Donohue, Tichenor, & Olien, 1995)
With the advent of people front, government has to make sure that they agree with the general public views their actions are in consistent with the people's opinion. In this era media had played a pivotal role in bringing public voices in the mainstream and aligning the government actions according to the consensus of people (Halberstam, Sheehan, & Arnett, 1996)