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Quagmire
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Author : David Andrew Biggs
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2012-03-15
Quagmire written by David Andrew Biggs and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with History categories.
Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam’s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam’s turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies through the lens of environmental history. Beginning with the French conquest in the 1860s, colonial reclamation schemes and pacification efforts centered on the development of a dense network of new canals to open land for agriculture. These projects helped precipitate economic and environmental crises in the 1930s, and subsequent struggles after 1945 led to the balkanization of the delta into a patchwork of regions controlled by the Viet Minh, paramilitary religious sects, and the struggling Franco-Vietnamese government. After 1954, new settlements were built with American funds and equipment in a crash program intended to solve continuing economic and environmental problems. Finally, the American military collapse in Vietnam is revealed as not simply a failure of policy makers but also a failure to understand the historical, political, and environmental complexity of the spaces American troops attempted to occupy and control. By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms, Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape - channelized rivers, a complex canal system, hydropower development, deforestation - have interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region. Quagmire delves beyond common stereotypes to present an intricate, rich history that shows how closely political and ecological issues are intertwined in the human interactions with the water environment in the Mekong Delta. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp1-UItZqsk
Quagmire In Civil War
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Author : Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Quagmire In Civil War written by Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Political Science categories.
Rebuts the pervasive 'folk' notion that quagmire is intrinsic to a country or civil war. Shows that quagmire is made, not found.
Quagmire S Test
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Author : Linda Steaveson
language : en
Publisher: Saguaro Books, LLC
Release Date : 2018-02-19
Quagmire S Test written by Linda Steaveson and has been published by Saguaro Books, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
While on a journey to find the final ingredient for her Practically Perfect Parsley Potion, Quagmire Pinch, has a misstep and tumbles down a cliff drawing the attention of a group of gnomes and discovers that in the past their king has killed any and all witches who have stumbled upon his hidden kingdom. She earns the trust of her newfound friends, who allow her to join them in their gem mine. Trying to help, she offers a reluctant cart-pulling mine rat a treat, causing it to stampede and break a cart wheel. She is seen fixing the wheel by a rather unscrupulous gnome who is spying on her. When the king finds out she is a witch, she is thrown into the dungeon. While there, she discovers a diary within a wall detailing the imprisonment of another witch the king had imprisoned very long ago and revealing the king is a usurper. She devises a plan and eventually makes a bargain with the false king to feed his vanity and is released. A spell for him goes awry and a war begins. Will the rightful king be able to take his place to rule Gnometopia?
The Making Of A Quagmire
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Author : David Halberstam
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2008
The Making Of A Quagmire written by David Halberstam and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders and misconceptions of American military and political leaders holds true for the entire war.
The Quagmire
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Author : James Kisner
language : en
Publisher: Zebra Books
Release Date : 1991-09-01
The Quagmire written by James Kisner and has been published by Zebra Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09-01 with Fiction categories.
When children begin to disappear while playing along Pigeon Creek, a favorite watering hole on Creek Road, little Joey Wickes realizes that the nightmares he has been having are coming true
Tale Of Two Quagmires
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Author : Kenneth J. Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-03
Tale Of Two Quagmires written by Kenneth J. Campbell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-03 with Political Science categories.
Is Iraq becoming another Vietnam? Author Kenneth Campbell received a Purple Heart after serving 13 months in Vietnam. He then spent years campaigning to get the US out of the war. Here, Campbell lays out the political similarities of both wars. He traces the chief lessons of Vietnam, which helped America successfully avoid quagmires for thirty years, and explains how neoconservatives within the Bush administration cynically used the tragedy of 9/11 to override the "Vietnam syndrome" and drag America into a new quagmire in Iraq. In view of where the U.S. finds itself today -- unable to stay but unable to leave -- Campbell recommends that America re-dedicate itself to the essential lessons of Vietnam: the danger of imperial arrogance, the limits of military force, the importance of international and constitutional law, and the power of morality.
Quagmire
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Author : Donald Anderson
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-10
Quagmire written by Donald Anderson and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with History categories.
In Quagmire you’ll find a range of voices—men and women, military and civilian—and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, and war’s aftermath. These personal responses to war in Iraq and Afghanistan have been selected from War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities to mark the thirtieth anniversary of its inaugural publication. The responses cover approximately fifteen years of the United States’ conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and demonstrate the aftermath of war and the degreed ripples that extend beyond soldiers to families and friends, lovers, hometowns, even pets. As citizens, Pablo Neruda advised, we have an obligation to “come and see the blood in the streets.” To ignore what we do in war and what war does to us is to move willfully toward ignorance. To ignore such reminders imperils ourselves, our communities, and our nation.
Into The Quagmire
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Author : Brian VanDeMark
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-05-18
Into The Quagmire written by Brian VanDeMark and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05-18 with History categories.
In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, the government of South Vietnam lay in a shambles. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor described it as a country beset by "chronic factionalism, civilian-military suspicion and distrust, absence of national spirit and motivation, lack of cohesion in the social structure, lack of experience in the conduct of government." Virtually no one in the Johnson Administration believed that Saigon could defeat the communist insurgency--and yet by July of 1965, a mere nine months later, they would lock the United States on a path toward massive military intervention which would ultimately destroy Johnson's presidency and polarize the American people. Into the Quagmire presents a closely rendered, almost day-by-day account of America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during those crucial nine months. Mining a wealth of recently opened material at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and elsewhere, Brian VanDeMark vividly depicts the painful unfolding of a national tragedy. We meet an LBJ forever fearful of a conservative backlash, which he felt would doom his Great Society, an unsure and troubled leader grappling with the unwanted burden of Vietnam; George Ball, a maverick on Vietnam, whose carefully reasoned (and, in retrospect, strikingly prescient) stand against escalation was discounted by Rusk, McNamara, and Bundy; and Clark Clifford, whose last-minute effort at a pivotal meeting at Camp David failed to dissuade Johnson from doubling the number of ground troops in Vietnam. What comes across strongly throughout the book is the deep pessimism of all the major participants as things grew worse--neither LBJ, nor Bundy, nor McNamara, nor Rusk felt confident that things would improve in South Vietnam, that there was any reasonable chance for victory, or that the South had the will or the ability to prevail against the North. And yet deeper into the quagmire they went. Whether describing a tense confrontation between George Ball and Dean Acheson ("You goddamned old bastards," Ball said to Acheson, "you remind me of nothing so much as a bunch of buzzards sitting on a fence and letting the young men die") or corrupt politicians in Saigon, VanDeMark provides readers with the full flavor of national policy in the making. More important, he sheds greater light on why America became entangled in the morass of Vietnam.
Quagmire
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Author : Erick Mukiira
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2020-01-24
Quagmire written by Erick Mukiira and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-24 with Drama categories.
Nyangi's boyfriend commits suicide after seeing that his future is bleak and without hope. In a village where freedom is bought and schools burried in the valley of oblivion, the youths have no choice but to fight for their rights. A tale with twists and turns that leaves the mouth wide open and a story that leaves a great impact in our current society that is doomed with corruption.
The Quagmire
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Author : Emil Murad
language : en
Publisher: Freund Publishing House Ltd.
Release Date : 1998
The Quagmire written by Emil Murad and has been published by Freund Publishing House Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Iraq categories.