Vietnam The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1964 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos, and in bombing runs over North Vietnam. ... Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a communist-led South Vietnamese guerrilla movement. ... Vietnam released figures in 1995 that a total of one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians were killed in the war. ... Australia lost almost 500 of the 47,000 troops they had deployed to Viet...

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This was first proved in the Vietnam War, when Americans woke each morning and watched horrific images of war being shown on channels such as CNN. As President Nixon quickly found out, this globalisation turned public opinion so much against the war that the Americans had no choice but to pull out of Vietnam. ... Iraq's consequent invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was the reason for the Gulf War, a war that he thought the West would ignore but one that resulted in his forces being driven from Kuwait by an American-led coalition. ... America also removed Iraq from its" list of "terrorist-spons...

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War in The Gulf On August 2, 1990 the world was surprised when the small country of Kuwait was seized by Iraq. ... When Bush got the approval of the U.N. to fight war in the Persian Gulf, he lashed out at Saddam. ... (Triumph 94) He told the people the fighting will not be like Vietnam, it will be swift and massive, much like Germany's Blitzkrieg. ... Aziz continued to say, "We will leave only if the Israelis give back the land the Arabs lost in the Arab-Israeli war." ... They sat at the TVs waiting to hear that that war was waged. ...

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In conflicts since the Vietnam War, the amount of first-hand reporting has diminished. ... 3) Will such pictures help the audience understand the truth(s) of this war? 4) Will the images help make the audience more knowledgeable about this war?... It gave Johnson the authority to change the U.S. role in Vietnam from that of a small detachment of military advisers to one of a large offensive force which remained there for nearly a decade. ... The current war with Iraq has also had its share of faulty intelligence. ...

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