One of the lasting impacts from the Vietnam War is Agent Orange. It was sprayed on nearly 4 million people and is adversely impacting ordinary civilians. Inside Vietnam, the ecology and people are still wrestling with the lingering effects. The most notable include: physically, environmentally and social-politically. These factors influence...

The popular conception of the Vietnam War is of a military conflict that occurred between American-supported forces in South Vietnam and the communist-supported North Vietnamese, lasting from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. In fact, this conflict stretched back much further, to 1945, when the French military occupied and fought to...

When Nixon entered the rush for the presidency, he promised that he would become the president who ended the Vietnam War. However, he was driven by the idea of achieving peace with honor. Even though, in theory, his approach seemed viable and effective, in real life, it faced several notable...

The Vietnamizing the war is the term which is associated with the figure of the US president Richard Nixon. Vietnamizing the war is the withdrawal of the US troops from the theatre of war in Vietnam. Richard Nixon was a sort of forced to make this uneasy decision, and there...

The first half of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket presents the hardcore instruction of soldiers at the Parris Island training camp. The brutal behavior of the drill sergeant Hartman is meant to transform boys into men and men into killing machines. When Private Pyle fails to successfully make the transformation,...