Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That was in January, when Senator John McCain of Arizona was as unknown to most Americans as a place called Kosovo. But since the NATO air assault against Yugoslavia began five weeks ago, McCain, a 62-year-old former Navy pilot and Vietnam War hero, has won attention and praise as the candidate who didn't hesitate to call for considering the use of ground troops and who criticized the Clinton Administration for squeamishly "trying to avoid war while waging one." His blunt talk was in such demand that his staff lost track of the number of Kosovo-related...
...believe there is a high probabilitythat external air power can deal effectively andconclusively with a failed state. That's thesituation we faced in Bosnia and Kosovo and earlierin Vietnam," he said...
...added that the U.S. government must applythe lessons of the Vietnam War to the currentmilitary situation in Kosovo...
...book resulted from a four-year project to explore each nation's perspectives on the war. The project involved meetings between American officials who served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and U.S. scholars of Vietnam and the military, as well as their Vietnamese counterparts. The meetings discussed the mistakes made during the Vietnam...
...meetings, which took place in Vietnam andItaly, provided both nations with historical andpolitical insights into the Vietnam...