Invisible enemies : the American war on Vietnam, 1975-2000
Edwin A. Martini
Bok · Engelsk · 2007
| Omfang | xii, 280 sider
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| Opplysninger | A continuation of war by other means : the origins of the American war on Vietnam, 1975-1977 -- Constructing mutual destruction : the cultural logic of normalization, 1977-1979 -- Bleeding Vietnam : the United States and the third Indochina war -- "I am reality" : redrawing the terms of battle, 1985-1989 -- Peace is at hand : roadmaps, roadblocks, and one-way streets, 1990-1995 -- Invisible enemies : searching for Vietnam at the wall(s) -- Epilogue: The uneasy peace and the flags that still fly.. - "Beginning where most histories of the Vietnam War end, Invisible Enemies examines the relationship between the United States and Vietnam following the American pullout in 1975. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, Edwin Martini shows how the United States continued to wage war on Vietnam "by other means" for another twenty-five years. In addition to imposing an extensive program of economic sanctions, the United States opposed Vietnam's membership in the United Nations, supported the Cambodians, including the Khmer Rouge, in their decade-long war with the Vietnamese, and insisted that Vietnam provide a "full accounting" of American MIAs before diplomatic relations could be established. According to Martini, such policies not only worked against some of the stated goals of U.S. foreign policy, they were also in opposition to the corporate economic interests that ultimately played a key role in normalizing relations between the two nations in the late 1990s. Martini reinforces his assessment of American diplomacy with an analysis of the "cultural front"—the movies, myths, memorials, and other phenomena that supported continuing hostility toward Vietnam while silencing opposing views of the war and its legacies. He thus demonstrates that the "American War on Vietnam" was as much a battle for the cultural memory of the war within the United States as it was a lengthy economic, political, and diplomatic campaign to punish a former adversary."
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| Emner | Public opinion - United States.
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| ISBN | 1558496084. - 1558496092. - 9781558496088. - 9781558496095
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