Quotes
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Who is Clausewitz?
AVF
What is the All Volunteer Force?
The sole female book author on our syllabus
Who is Mary Dudziak?
This war drastically shifted American public opinion on the draft (as argued by William Taylor)
What is the Vietnam War?
We learned from Barkawi that this term, meaning the process by which ideas and information spreads, is not a recent development in war and society.
"War is not a metaphor; it is an intensive fabric of relations making the Eurocene.”
Who is Jairus Grove?
GWOT
What is global war on terror?
Anand Gopal interviews "just an ordinary woman" about her experience during the war
Who is Heela?
This author looks at the systematic destruction of buildings during the war as a proxy for other ideological, ethnic, and nationalist battles.
Who is Robert Bevan
This book utilized unconventional history like oral interviews and photographs, and taught us the importance of understanding the effects of trauma and collective memory within war and society
What is Southern Voices (Dedrick)?
"The degree of concern expressed over imprisoned and missing Americans during and after the Vietnam War was unprecedented, despite the fact that their numbers were modest by historical standards."
Who is Michael Allen?
USSR
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
This author's article looks at the schism between new and old military history, and one of the old schools' problems with the new school is looking at women and gender
Who is Joanna Bourke?
Gopal argued that the security vacuum created by the invasion of Iraq led to distraction from Afghanistan and the reassertion of this group
Hinton warned us that obedience to authority "highlights a key dynamic involved in" this
What is genocide?
"Rebuilding can be as symbolic as the destruction that necessitates it."
Who is Robert Bevan?
CCP
This organization in the Vietnam era was spearheaded by the wives and mothers of POWs and MIAs
What is the National League of Families (NLF)?
Chris Hedges argues that there are these two forms of reality during war time
What are Mythic and Sensory reality?
This was imposed on American Society in 1941 due to power shortages during WWII
What is Daylight Savings Time?
"I convinced myself... The I that did the convincing was the one who needed desperately to justify the entire experience, to make it sane and right and okay and approved."
Who is Karl Marlantes?
DK
What is the Democratic Kampuchea?
This author wrote about "the seduction of battle" and the masculinity, perversion, and Freudian undertones within war
Who is Hedges?
This 1941 Secretary of War claimed to feel relief after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Who is Henry Stimson?
Groups of people rather than the destroyed ______ themselves are often the main/intended targets in acts of cultural destruction
What are buildings/monuments?