Atrocities In Vietnam
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War Crimes In Vietnam
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Author : Bertrand Russell
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011-03-21
War Crimes In Vietnam written by Bertrand Russell and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-21 with History categories.
In this harsh and unsparing book, Bertrand Russell presents the unvarnished truth about the war in Vietnam. He argues that "To understand the war, we must understand America"-and, in doing so, we must understand that racism in the United States created a climate in which it was difficult for Americans to understand what they were doing in Vietnam. According to Russell, it was this same racism that provoked "a barbarous, chauvinist outcry when American pilots who have bombed hospitals, schools, dykes, and civilian centres are accused of committing war crimes." Even today, more than forty years later, this chauvinist moral blindness permitted John McCain to run for President effectively unchallenged when he gloried in his exploits in bombing the Vietnamese.
Vietnam War Crimes
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Author : Samuel Brenner
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 2006
Vietnam War Crimes written by Samuel Brenner and has been published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
Discusses some of the atrocities that occurred during the Vietnam War, and presents arguments for why they were committed, why they were covered up, and the positive and negative reactions by the American and Vietnamese people to these crimes.
Atrocities In Vietnam
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Author : Edward S. Herman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Atrocities In Vietnam written by Edward S. Herman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with History categories.
At The Crossroads Of Justice
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Author : Paul J. Noto
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-10-19
At The Crossroads Of Justice written by Paul J. Noto and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-19 with History categories.
Vietnam is remembered as the war that divided a nation and scarred a generation. While the vast majority of American personnel in Vietnam served honorably, a few highly publicized atrocities tarnished the reputation of the military. In At the Crossroads of Justice: My Lai and Son ThangAmerican Atrocities in Vietnam, author Paul J. Noto analyzes two of those incidentsMy Lai and Son Thangagainst the backdrop of a flawed military justice system and an arrogant and inept civilian and military leadership that failed to articulate a coherent military strategy to win the war. Noto shows that failure of leadership contributed to problems of command discipline, racial tension, drug abuse, and general disregard for military protocol. His study examines these issues and describes how ordinary American boys became cold-blooded killers seemingly overnight, what combination of factors led to these tragic events, and how the military can prevent them from happening in future conflicts. By studying these crimes and the judicial process that followed, Noto provides an insightful analysis of the related issues and how they have impacted military training to the present day.
My Lai
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Author : William Thomas Allison
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-10-01
My Lai written by William Thomas Allison and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with History categories.
Allison tells the story of a terrible moment in American history and explores how to deal with the aftermath. On March 16, 1968, American soldiers killed as many as five hundred Vietnamese men, women, and children in a village near the South China Sea. In My Lai William Thomas Allison explores and evaluates the significance of this horrific event. How could such a thing have happened? Who (or what) should be held accountable? How do we remember this atrocity and try to apply its lessons, if any? My Lai has fixed the attention of Americans of various political stripes for more than forty years. The breadth of writing on the massacre, from news reports to scholarly accounts, highlights the difficulty of establishing fact and motive in an incident during which confusion, prejudice, and self-preservation overwhelmed the troops. Son of a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War—and aware that the generation who lived through the incident is aging—Allison seeks to ensure that our collective memory of this shameful episode does not fade. Well written and accessible, Allison’s book provides a clear narrative of this historic moment and offers suggestions for how to come to terms with its aftermath.
Kill Anything That Moves
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Author : Nick Turse
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2013-01-15
Kill Anything That Moves written by Nick Turse and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-15 with History categories.
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians The American Empire Project Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to "kill anything that moves." Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded-what one soldier called "a My Lai a month." Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.
Not Just Following Orders
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Author : Christopher James Levesque
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Not Just Following Orders written by Christopher James Levesque and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Electronic dissertations categories.
This dissertation develops a history of soldiers' efforts to report war crimes over the course of the Vietnam War. Previous scholarship that addressed this issue largely dismissed GIs who alleged war crimes as political activists, dupes of the media, or individuals seeking forgiveness for their actions in combat. However, these three categories are insufficient to understand the motives leading troops to claim that they witnessed war crimes during their service in Southeast Asia. Nor do they account for how soldiers chose to make their allegations, or how their rationales or methods changed over time. By re-examining the historical record of GI involvement in the antiwar movement, media accounts of soldiers alleging war crimes, and declassified Department of Defense documents, this dissertation presents a new framework for understanding both how and why American soldiers reported atrocities. Soldiers adopted four primary venues when they alleged war crimes in Vietnam: their chain of command, the federal government, the media, or the antiwar movement. Generally, soldiers who remained convinced that the Army's hierarchy would properly investigate atrocity allegations reported atrocities through their local chains of command. As soldiers became increasingly disenchanted with the Army and the war, they chose more public venues to report war crimes. Soldiers who no longer believed that the Army, the federal government, or the press would act to address the problem of atrocities turned to the antiwar movement in an effort to educate the public about the conduct of the war, and its effects on both troops and Vietnamese noncombatants. This last group of soldiers naively hoped that just by publicizing the horrors of the war, the American public would call for it to end, forcing the Johnson and Nixon administrations to act. A key element affecting whether individuals chose to report atrocities was Seymour Hersh's explosive exposé of the My Lai Massacre in November 1969. Many soldiers who subsequently made war crimes allegations expressed their concerns that Lt. William Calley was a scapegoat selected by the Pentagon to placate the American public. They believed that commanding officers and policy-makers should accept the responsibility for American atrocities in Vietnam.
War Without Fronts
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Author : Bernd Greiner
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-05-05
War Without Fronts written by Bernd Greiner and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-05 with History categories.
Shortly before 8 am on 16 March 1968, C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, entered the hamlet of My Lai. By noon more than 400 women, children and old men had been systematically murdered. To this day, the My Lai massacre has remained the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War. Yet this infamous incident was not an exception or aberration. Based on extensive research and unprecedented access to US Army archives, and tracing the responsibility for these atrocities all the way up to the White House and the Pentagon, War Without Fronts reveals the true extent of war crimes committed by American troops in Vietnam and how a war to win hearts and minds soon became a war against civilians.
The War Behind Me
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Author : Deborah Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2008-10-28
The War Behind Me written by Deborah Nelson and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-28 with History categories.
In 2005, Deborah Nelson joined forces with military historian Nick Turse to investigate an extraordinary archive: the largest compilation of records on Vietnam-era war crimes ever to surface. The declassified Army papers were erroneously released and have since been pulled from public circulation. Few civilians have seen the documents. The files contain reports of more than 300 confirmed atrocities, and 500 other cases the Army either couldn't't prove or didn't't investigate. The archive has letters of complaint to generals and congressmen, as well as reports of Army interviews with hundreds of men who served. Far from being limited to a few bad actors or rogue units, atrocities occurred in every Army division that saw combat in Vietnam. Torture of detainees was routine; so was the random killing of farmers in fields and women and children in villages. Punishment for these acts was either nonexistent or absurdly light. In most cases, no one was prosecuted at all. In The War Behind Me Deborah Nelson goes beyond the documents and talks with many of those who were involved, both accusers and accused, to uncover their stories and learn how they deal with one of the most awful secrets of the Vietnam War.
The Dellums Committee Hearings On War Crimes In Vietnam
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Author : Ronald V. Dellums
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Dellums Committee Hearings On War Crimes In Vietnam written by Ronald V. Dellums and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.