SEIZURE OF KEY OBJECTIVES IN URBAN FIGHTING. AN NASIRIYAH 2003 – TACTICAL CASE STUDY

2011 ◽  
Vol 161 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Paweł MAKOWIEC
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Operation Iraqi Freedom ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Iraqi Freedom

This paper presents the seizure of two bridges in An Nasiriyah by the troops of Task Force Tarawa (USMC) during the initial phase of Operation “Iraqi Freedom”. This combat is considered to be one of the major urban fights since the fighting in Hue during the Vietnam War (1968). The first part of the article discusses the task and organization of TF Tarawa. The second part presents the struggle of 1st Marine Battalion, which is a classic example of the seizure of key objectives in urban combat.

Hanoi's Diplomatic Front in Sweden: Communist Propaganda Strategies in the Vietnam War

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Perry Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Political Freedoms ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Global Cold War

This article offers a new perspective on the Swedish protests against the Vietnam War by placing it in its broader global Cold War context. As a case study on ‘people's diplomacy’ and ‘united front strategy’, it acknowledges the importance of Chinese and Vietnamese influences on the peace campaigns in Sweden and aims, as far as possible, to reconstruct Hanoi's motives, strategies and actions to create and direct Sweden's policy and opinion on the war. With the extremely generous political freedoms granted it by official Sweden, Hanoi was able to find new international allies as well as organise political propaganda manifestations from their Stockholm base. In the end, North Vietnam's version of the war as being about national liberation fought by a people united in their resistance to a foreign, genocidal, aggressor won a large enough share of the opinion in the West to force the American political leadership to give up the fight. Hanoi's Diplomatic Front in Sweden was one of the important battlefields behind that victory

A case study of two recreation programs serving soldiers on Warrior in Transition Units

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Andrea Frisch, MS, CTRS ◽  
Patricia Ardovino, PhD, CTRS, CPRP
Keyword(s):  
Operation Iraqi Freedom ◽  
Operation Enduring Freedom ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Art Program ◽  
Recreation Programs ◽  
Iraqi Freedom

This case study examined recreation programs on two US military installations serving soldiers who were injured during Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn, and were on Warrior in Transition Units. The recreation programs were the Adaptive Reconditioning program at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii and the Resiliency Through Art program on US Army Garrison in Vicenza, Italy. Data from demographic questionnaires, interviews, and documents were analyzed and revealed three themes: the civilian world, compliance, and masculinity.

scholarly journals Selected issues on political economy, society, and environment of contemporary Vietnam: A preliminary review of the literature

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thu-Trang Vuong
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Preliminary Review ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Vietnam War

Non-US-centric literature took up a smaller share and generally employed Vietnam as a case study for theories of conflicts, for example (Arreguín-Toft 2001; Norton and Merom 2003). It is also worth noting that the literature on Vietnam – be the focus on the country itself or the Vietnam War – was largely book-based and often ethnographic in nature (cf. Hickey 1964; Louis 1969). More recent works seemed to be less US-centric and more about Vietnam as the subject, perhaps owing to shifts in interest (from attempts to explain and analyze the Vietnam War to a focus on Vietnam’s growth, especially economic) as well as to the rise of generations of Vietnamese intellectuals, both contributing to the literature and attracting foreign colleagues towards the country. This literature shall be the focus of the review.

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