Teaching Hearts and Minds: College Students Reflect on the Vietnam War in Literature

1993 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Lucille Capra ◽  
Barry Kroll ◽  
Larry R. Johannessen ◽  
Eric James Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
War In Literature ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Reassessing the Marine Corps’ Approach to Strategy in the Vietnam War, 1965–1968

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-52
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Schlosser
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Johnson Administration ◽  
Strategic Options ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
North Vietnam ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Search And Destroy

Scholars of the Vietnam War contend that the U.S. had two distinct strategic options for fighting the war: attrition and pacification. While the overall American commander, General William Westmoreland, embraced attrition through search-and-destroy, the Marine Corps favored pacification. Critics of Westmoreland have contended that pacification, which entailed protecting the South Vietnamese and winning over their hearts-and-minds, was a better approach that could have brought about a successful outcome to the war. The recent declassification of Marine Corps records requires us to reappraise what pacification actually involved however. These records demonstrate that the Marine Corps believed a successful pacification strategy in Vietnam demanded a substantial expansion of the war into North Vietnam and bordering states and a multi-decade commitment of U.S. forces to Southeast Asia. Ultimately, the Marine Corps approach did not differ substantially from Westmoreland’s and was no more likely a means of achieving victory within the limitations stipulated by the Johnson Administration.

Colonial Intimacies and Counterinsurgency

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simeon Man
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Race War ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Anticolonial Nationalism

This chapter reconsiders the origins of the Vietnam War by foregrounding U.S.-Philippine colonial history. It discusses the U.S. counterinsurgency in South Vietnam in 1954–1956 that mobilized the intimacies of Filipino doctors, nurses, and veterans to help win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese. Their military, affective, and ideological labor, I argue, was crucial to the U.S. effort to depict counterinsurgency as a benevolent enterprise, antithetical to a colonial race war. At the same time, these efforts could not contain the rising tide of anticolonial nationalism in the Philippines and South Vietnam that emerged by the end of the 1950s.

Hearts and Minds: Bodies, Poetry, and Resistance in the Vietnam War.

1997 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 434
Author(s):  
Paul Hansom ◽  
Michael Bibby
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Hearts And Minds

scholarly journals The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Khe Sahn as a Watershed of the Vietnam War: Michael Herr's Dispatches

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Luiz Carlos Moreira da Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Tet Offensive

The literature of war, independently of genre, tends to record the causes of the conflict, which are generally political and economic. But, it also tends to appoint a kind of aesthetics of reception, in other words, how the conflict is felt and registered by the experiences of the individual, whether soldier, writer, journalist or common reader. In Dispatches, the fantasies of the grunts, the allusions to the theory of dominoes, the necessity to win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people, and the role of the press are condensed in this remarkable non-fictional narrative.

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