Title: THE MOST IMPORTANT LEGACY OF THE VIETNAM CONFLICT: (A WHITEBOARD) - War Room - U.S. Army War College
Headings: THE MOST IMPORTANT LEGACY OF THE VIETNAM CONFLICT:
THE MOST IMPORTANT LEGACY OF THE VIETNAM CONFLICT: (A WHITEBOARD)
What, to date, has been the most important legacy of the Vietnam Conflict?
2. Dr Meredith Lair (Dept of History and Art History, George Mason University)
3. Dr Heather Stur (Dept of History, University of Southern Mississippi)
4. Dr Jacqueline Whitt (Dept of National Security and Strategy, United States Army War College)
5. Dr Rachel Jacobs (Dept of Political Science and International Studies, Dickinson College)
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Content: Regardless, it seems pretty clear that the AVF is here to stay. 2. Dr Meredith Lair (Dept of History and Art History, George Mason University)
Dr Lair is the author of Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). What sounds like a historical question is also a math problem: calculation of the greatest change relative to the outcome. The Vietnam War wreaked so much havoc, and yet it changed so little. South Vietnam fell to communism, and the Domino Theory’s most concerning inevitabilities never came to pass. There are a lot of potential answers—so many, in fact, that I once taught an entire course called Legacies of the Vietnam War. Course units included (among others):