The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia. By Andrew J. Rotter. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. 228p. $29.95. - William Fulbright and the Vietnam War: The Dissent of a Political Realist. By William C. Berman. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1988. 235p. $24.00. - Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves. By Melvin Small. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. 322p. $35.00 cloth, $12.00 paper.

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 1093-1095
Author(s):  
Eugene Brown
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
State University ◽  
Kent State University ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
The Vietnam War

scholarly journals Institutional Restructuring in Response to the Changing Mission of Land Grant Colleges Cook College, Rutgers University – The State University of New Jersey

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-304
Author(s):  
Daymon W. Thatch ◽  
William L. Park
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The State ◽  
State University ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University

Rutgers University was chartered as Queen's College on November 10, 1766. It was the eighth institution of higher education founded in Colonial America prior to the Revolutionary War. From its modest beginning in the New Brunswick area the University has grown to eight separately organized undergraduate colleges in three areas of the State, with a wide range of offerings in liberal and applied arts and sciences.

scholarly journals Overburdening: Two books on the British politics towards Southeast Asia from 1943 to 1965

2012 ◽  
Vol 168 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-117
Author(s):  
Jaap Anten
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
British Politics ◽  
British Policy ◽  
The Vietnam War

Review of: Peter Lowe, Contending with nationalism and communism; British policy towards Southeast Asia, 1945-65. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, xii + 312 pp. [Global conflict and security since 1945.] ISBN 9780230524873. Price: GBP 60.00 (hardback). T.O. Smith, Britain and the origin of the Vietnam War; UK policy in Indo-China, 1943-50. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xiii + 229 pp. [Global contlict and security since 1945.] ISBN 9780230507050. Price: GBP 60.00 (hardback)

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2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-180
Author(s):  
Jim Short
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
The Sun ◽  
State University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Black Theater ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Northwestern University

A Testament to a Dying Vision of America

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-295
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Musiał
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
History Of ◽  
National League ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
North Vietnam ◽  
The U.S

This article is a review of The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home (2019) by Heath Hardage Lee. The book presents a popular history of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, an organisation that advocated for the rights of American prisoners of war captured by North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

The Vietnam War and American Military Strategy, 1965–1973

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Daddis
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Military Strategy ◽  
True Nature ◽  
American Military ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
The Cold War

For nearly a decade, American combat soldiers fought in South Vietnam to help sustain an independent, noncommunist nation in Southeast Asia. After U.S. troops departed in 1973, the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975 prompted a lasting search to explain the United States’ first lost war. Historians of the conflict and participants alike have since critiqued the ways in which civilian policymakers and uniformed leaders applied—some argued misapplied—military power that led to such an undesirable political outcome. While some claimed U.S. politicians failed to commit their nation’s full military might to a limited war, others contended that most officers fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the war they were fighting. Still others argued “winning” was essentially impossible given the true nature of a struggle over Vietnamese national identity in the postcolonial era. On their own, none of these arguments fully satisfy. Contemporary policymakers clearly understood the difficulties of waging a war in Southeast Asia against an enemy committed to national liberation. Yet the faith of these Americans in their power to resolve deep-seated local and regional sociopolitical problems eclipsed the possibility there might be limits to that power. By asking military strategists to simultaneously fight a war and build a nation, senior U.S. policymakers had asked too much of those crafting military strategy to deliver on overly ambitious political objectives. In the end, the Vietnam War exposed the limits of what American military power could achieve in the Cold War era.

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