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...Hussein, Franks replied that he would need five divisions and five aircraft carriers to make it work. A dismayed Rumsfeld famously sent the plan back two or three times, asking the four-star general to shrink the forces in half, or even more. Following the Powell doctrine that all Vietnam-era generals swear by, Franks wanted an overpowering force to make sure America would prevail. Rumsfeld wanted him to do it faster and lighter, in part because he didn't want to wait the four or five months required to get all those troops dressed and ready...
...QUIET AMERICAN. Michael Caine is garnering some of the best reviews of his career for his role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton...
...We’re here to support the troops,” said John W. Carbone, one of the workers. “There was no support for troops back in Vietnam, although it’s better this time...
...work graphic designers and theme-music writers overtime to get ready for Iraq, we're hearing an old truism again: that TV can change the course of a war. It can. But that doesn't mean it will. Any discussion of TV and war, for instance, starts with Vietnam. Yes, seeing the carnage soured Americans on the fight. But the conflict was still America's longest, ending years after the onslaught of body bags at dinnertime. As FX's timely movie The Pentagon Papers (March 9, 8 p.m. E.T.) shows, many of that war's most egregious mistakes were made...
...more than just food and steam—moving important guests when the need has arisen. In 1968 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace escaped an angry crowd outside Sanders Theater by escaping through the tunnels. Henry A. Kissinger avoided anti-war protestors by leaving through the tunnels after a Vietnam-era speech...