Southeast Asia And The Vietnam War
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Author | : Cheng Guan Ang |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2009-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135238375 |
Considers how the other countries of southeast Asia were affected by Vietnam War and how they reacted to it. This title explains the differing responses - Thailand and the Philippines both contributed militarily to the US war effort, whilst Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore were non-aligned.
Author | : Mai Elliott |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 695 |
Release | : 2010-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0833049151 |
This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era and assesses the effect that this research had on U.S. officials and policies. Elliott draws on interviews with former RAND staff and the many studies that RAND produced on these topics to provide a narrative that captures the tenor of the times and conveys the attitudes and thinking of those involved.
Author | : Bernard C. Nalty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Vietnam |
ISBN | : 9780861013463 |
This book gives an overall view of the conflict in Vietnam, as well as accounts of hand-hand combat and advanced technology at war. It includes an index of American service men and women missing in Southeast Asia up to November 1993.
Author | : Shawn F. McHale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2021-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108936172 |
Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945–54), except in the south. He shows how broad swaths of Vietnamese people were uneasily united in 1945 under the Viet Minh Resistance banner, all opposing the French attempt to reclaim control of the country. By 1947, resistance unity had shattered and Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic violence had divided the Mekong delta. From this point on, the war in the south turned into an overt civil war wrapped up in a war against France. Based on extensive archival research in four countries and in three languages, this is the first substantive English-language book focused on southern Vietnam's transition from colonialism to independence.
Author | : Bernard C. Nalty |
Publisher | : Combined Publishing |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781840650037 |
In addition to a complete overview of the conflict, The Vietnam War provides harrowing first-hand accounts of both hand-to-hand combat and advanced technology at war, written with great authority by commentators with access to the most detailed information and the closest ties to the war.
Author | : Cheng Guan Ang |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-12-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135238367 |
This book describes and explains Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore’s attitudes and policies regarding the Vietnam War. While it is generally known that all three countries supported the US war effort in Vietnam, it reveals the motivations behind the decisions of the decision makers, the twists and turns and the nuances in the attitudes of Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore following the development of the war from the 1950s through to its end in 1975. Although the principal focus is the three supposedly non-aligned countries - Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, the perspectives of Thailand and the Philippines - the two Southeast Asian countries which were formally allied with the United States - are discussed at the appropriate junctures. It makes an original contribution to the gradually growing literature on the international history of the Vietnam War and furthers our knowledge of the diplomatic history of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore in the early independent years, 1945/1949, 1957 and 1965 respectively, which coincided with early years of the Cold War in Southeast Asia.
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
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ISBN | : 1428910832 |
Author | : Bernard C. Nalty |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780760716977 |
Author | : Richard A. Ruth |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824860853 |
In Buddha’s Company explores a previously neglected aspect of the Vietnam War: the experiences of the Thai troops who served there and the attitudes and beliefs that motivated them to volunteer. Thailand sent nearly 40,000 volunteer soldiers to South Vietnam to serve alongside the Free World Forces in the conflict, but unlike the other foreign participants, the Thais came armed with historical and cultural knowledge of the region. Blending the methodologies of cultural and military history, Richard Ruth examines the individual experiences of Thai volunteers in their wartime encounters with American allies, South Vietnamese civilians, and Viet Cong enemies. Ruth shows how the Thais were transformed by living amongst the modern goods and war machinery of the Americans and by traversing the jungles and plantations haunted by indigenous spirits. At the same time, Ruth argues, Thailand’s ruling institutions used the image of volunteers to advance their respective agendas, especially those related to anticommunist authoritarianism. Drawing on numerous interviews with Thai veterans and archival material from Thailand and the United States, Ruth focuses on the cultural exchanges that occurred between Thai troops and their allies and enemies, presenting a Southeast Asian view of a conflict that has traditionally been studied as a Cold War event dominated by an American political agenda. The resulting study considers such diverse topics as comparative Buddhisms, alternative modernities, consumerism, celebrity, official memories vs. personal recollections, and the value of local knowledge in foreign wars. The war’s effects within Thailand itself are closely considered, demonstrating that the war against communism in Vietnam, as articulated by Thai leaders, was a popular cause among nearly all segments of the population. Furthermore, Ruth challenges previous assertions that Thailand’s forces were merely "America’s mercenaries" by presenting the multiple, overlapping motivations for volunteering offered by the soldiers themselves. In Buddha’s Company makes clear that many Thais sought direct involvement in the Vietnam War and that their participation had profound and lasting effects on the country’s political and military institutions, royal affairs, popular culture, and international relations. As one of only a handful of academic histories of Thailand in the 1960s, it provides a crucial link between the keystone studies of the Phibun-Sarit years (1946–1963) and those examining the turbulent 1970s.
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : United States |
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