Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Meet the Team
    • Suggest a Book
    • Copyright
    • Privacy Policy
  • Tribute to Robert Jervis
    • Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis: Part I
    • Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis: Part II
    • Obituary for Robert Jervis (30 April 1940-9 December 2021)
    • H-Diplo Essay 198- Robert Jervis on Learning the Scholar’s Craft
  • Publications
    • Roundtables
    • Trump Series 2021
    • Donald Trump and the World
    • Putin’s War
    • Tribute
    • Learning the Scholar’s Craft
    • Policy Series
    • Commentary
    • Essays
    • Forums
    • Article Reviews
    • H-Diplo Book Reviews
  • Indexes
    • Publications Index
    • Tag Index

Tag: Vietnam

H-Diplo Essay 380- Christopher R. Browning on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

October 26, 2021October 21, 2021 By Christopher R. Browning

My parents were both raised and educated in California.   My father, with ABD status at UC Berkeley, was hired as an instructor in the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1940 but—as a Norman Thomas socialist, anti-segregationist, and pacifist—was dismissed from that job two years later.  He quickly took…

Read More

Roundtable 12-3 on Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan

December 21, 2020December 18, 2020 By James J. Wirtz, Jonathan D. Caverley, Keith Shimko, James H. Lebovic

The study of bureaucracy as an influence in the formulation and conduct of foreign and defense policy has receded in popularity since its heyday during the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the limits of bureaucratic processes, the influence of the decorum generated by organizational culture or even the constraints created by the overall structure of government…

Read More

Article Review 72 on “To Arm or to Ally?: The Patron’s Dilemma and the Strategic Logic of Arms Transfers and Alliances.”

March 29, 2017March 26, 2017 By Michael McKoy

In an analytical review of alliance research, James Morrow posed the title question, “Alliances: why write them down?”[1] A decade and a half later, Keren Yarhi-Milo, Alexander Lanoszka, and Zack Cooper revisit this issue, posing their own title question: “To arm or to ally?” Yarhi-Milo, Lanoszka, and Cooper pose this question through the structural lens…

Read More

Roundtable 9-9 on Endurance and War: The National Sources of Military Cohesion

January 3, 2017December 24, 2020 By Alexander B. Downes, Brendan Rittenhouse Green, Phil Haun, Austin Long, Caitlin Talmadge, Jasen J. Castillo

The study of military effectiveness in political science has come a long way in a short period of time. When I started graduate school in the mid-1990s, most of the key works on the subject were written by historians and sociologists rather than political scientists.[1] Beginning in the late 1990s, however, military effectiveness began to…

Read More

Article Review 51 on “The Korea Syndrome: An Examination of War-Weariness Theory.” Journal of Cold War Studies 17:3

April 7, 2016February 2, 2017 By Paul C. Avey

For many, the U.S. experience in Iraq casts a large shadow over the current American willingness to utilize military force. This ‘Iraq-syndrome’ is a part of the broader war-weariness theoretical claim that following major conflicts – and particularly inconclusive or controversial ones – the public and policymakers will be hesitant to fight. If there were…

Read More

Roundtable 8-7 on Dictators at War and Peace

January 11, 2016September 14, 2020 By Dan Reiter, Alexander B. Downes, H. E. Goemans, Alex Weisiger, Jessica L.P. Weeks

The International Security Studies Forum (ISSF) of H-Diplo is very pleased to provide a roundtable discussion of Dr. Jessica Weeks’s book, Dictators at War and Peace. The book offers an important answer to the centuries-old international relations question as to how the politics within states affect the politics between states? Since at least the Enlightenment,…

Read More

Forum 11 on “The Great Game and Great Reforms of Asia, 1850-1950.”

December 1, 2015February 2, 2017 By Jon Thares Davidson, David Johnson, John E. Van Sant, Cyrus Veeser, Jon Davidann

The theme of the Great Game for this Special Issue of The Journal of American-East Asian Relations which focuses on colonialism and anti-colonialism in Central, East, and Southeast Asia, arises from the original Great Game, which involved a clash of the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia in the nineteenth century.   There are…

Read More

Roundtable 7-20 on Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency

July 20, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

In 2015 the United States faces a number of opportunities to intervene with military force in countries of secondary or even less strategic importance to U.S. policy makers.   President Barack Obama’s completion of the withdrawal of American ground combat troops from Iraq, and plans to draw down U.S. troops from Afghanistan, have not reduced…

Read More

Roundtable 7-18 on Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire

June 8, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

Imperial rule inevitably brings about a nationalist reaction. A brief glance at the title of Adria Lawrence’s book might suggest that her argument amplifies an already dominant historical consensus. However, such a view would be mistaken because Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism offers a powerful challenge to the common wisdom about colonialism and…

Read More

Roundtable 7-15 on The Kennan Diaries

March 23, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

An eleven year old George Kennan began keeping a diary on January 1, 1916. At the very start of the diary he wrote “In this simple, little book, A record of the day I cast; So I afterwards may look back upon my happy past” (684). Due to Kennan’s remarkably lengthy and prolific career as…

Read More
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Next

Popular Posts

  • Policy Series: The Nature of Narcissism
  • Roundtable 13-13 on Armed Guests: Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing
  • Roundtable 10-4 on Perception and Misperception in International Politics and on How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics
  • Roundtable 8-5 on Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq
  • The Importance of the Scholarship of Dorothy Borg, Part II
  • H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable on Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan & Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers
  • Article Review 151 on "The United States and the NATO Non-extension Assurances of 1990"
  • Policy Series: Donald Trump and the “Paranoid Style” in American (Intellectual) Politics
  • Review Forum 1 on Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam and on The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC and Vietnam
  • Article Review 118 on “Is Grand Strategy a Research Program? A Review Essay.”

Follow us on Twitter

  • View @HDiplo’s profile on Twitter

Tags

2021 Afghanistan Argentina Canada China Cold War Cuba democracy Donald Trump East Asia Egypt Europe foreign policy formation essay France Germany grand strategy India intelligence international relations IR Iran Iraq Israel Italy Japan Middle East national security NATO North Korea nuclear weapons Pakistan Poland political science power reflections Russia/Soviet Union South Korea Soviet Union Trump Trump administration United Kingdom United States Vietnam war

Links

  • H-Diplo

Archives

©2023 | Powered by WordPress and Superb Themes!
We use cookies to improve your experience. By your continued use of this site you accept such use.
Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Functional
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
Others
Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.
SAVE & ACCEPT