Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever existed outside the minds of certain Cro-Magnon professors--some still on the Harvard faculty--and the rationalizing consciences of the proto-arbitrageurs so common on college campuses these days. However you may characterize the generation that came of age during the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the women's liberation movement, the sexual revolution and the other frightening changes of "the '60s," their '80s counterparts were not in Washington last week...
...struggle has only started: 100,000 people in Washington is still only a beginning, but we are beginning in good shape. Because we have been warned by their example, we are five years ahead of what the protesters of the '60s were doing relative to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. And thanks to Ronald Reagan, we stand united. What we need now are new leaders, real leaders. And it's time for the generation of the '80s to fill that role...
...Foreign Affairs, July 1968, Huntington published an article: "The Bases of Accommodation" concerning the Vietnam War. Among other things he writes...
...absent-minded way the United States in Vietnam may well have stumbled upon the answer to wars of national liberation.' The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...article is partly based on a report written by Huntington for the State Department in 1967. This possibility is mentioned by Putnam, and Huntington himself has written in a "response" to Marion Levy in Science (20 March 1987): "I have never made any secret of my work there [in Vietnam] as a consultant in the Policy Planning Council of the State Department. I subsequently published an article in Foreign Affairs based in large part on that study." But in fact, Huntington did make a secret of the connection between his published article and a "study" or "report" to the State...