The Vietnam War
The Information War in the Vietnam War
In case readers of this blog are not familiar with the “New Books in Southeast Asian Studies” podcast series, I would like to draw attention
The Absence of South Vietnam in “The Vietnam War” and in the American Consciousness
I just finished watching “The Vietnam War” by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. While I really disliked the first episode (as it was extremely reductionist
South Vietnamese Soldiers, American Bodies and Racism
I found the first episode of The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to be so simplistic that I wanted to stop watching,
The First Vietnamese Killed by Americans in Vietnam
I just tried to watch the first episode of The Vietnam War, a new multi-episode documentary by American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novik. I
The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
There is a major new documentary about the Vietnam War that is about to be broadcast on TV in the US. It is called The
The Other North American View of “The 30-Years War in Vietnam” – the View that Will Never Change as Long as Academics only Speak to Fellow Intellectuals
In the previous post I commented on a recent essay that historian Christopher Goscha published in the New York Times called “The 30-Years War in
The 30-Years War in Vietnam, and 30 Years of Western Scholarship
Historian Christopher Goscha had an essay published in the New York Times yesterday (7 February 2017) entitled “The 30-Years War in Vietnam.” This essay is
The Vietnam War Through Thai Eyes
I just came across a recent video by the Thai band Cocktail called “You” (เธอ). It is about a Thai soldier who fell in love
August 1966
I was looking at an August 1966 issue of the magazine China Reconstructs. The first two articles in that issue dealt with Vietnam, and were
Vietnam War Fashion in 1960s Thailand
Richard A. Ruth’s In Buddha’s Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War is a fascinating study of Thailand’s involvement in Second Indochina War. There is
