Gender and the Sectional Conflict. By Nina Silber. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3244-8. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 117. $24.95.
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The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. By Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall (eds). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN: 0-674-02392-7. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 384. $27.00.
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Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950. By Mark Philip Bradley. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0-8078-4861-6. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 320. $26.00.
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Caribbean: The Panama Canal, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Latin American Context. By Richard H. Collin. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. ISBN: 0-8071-1507-X. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 520. $33.50.
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Recently France, Great Britain, and the United States commenced Operation Odyssey Dawn, launching air and cuise missal attacks against Muammar al-Gaddafi’s Libyan forces. This is not the first time France and the U.S. found themselves supporting, or in, military operations against Libya. In the 1980′s, France and Libya supported opposing factions during Chad’s civil war. The current offensive against Gaddafi and his forces is the second time America has resorted to airpower in settling matters with Libya. On 15 April 1986, the U.S. launched Operation El Dorado Canyon in response to the bombing of a Berlin discotheque on 5 April 1986. While this operation bloodied Gaddafi’s forces, it ultimately did little to prevent future Libyan sponsored acts of terrorism. A notable example being the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scottland.
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The purpose of Thompson Werk is to present the musings of a US War and Society doctoral student. Discussion topics principally center around the World Wars and Vietnam.
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- Robert: Everyone needs to see Vietnam,
- Ross Mahoney: Sounds like it is another
- Robert: My original post omitted the
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