Vietnam era Archives - R. Lawson Author https://rlawsonauthor.com/tag/vietnam-era/ Intelligent Thrillers Wed, 20 May 2020 17:43:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 55015724 The Vietnam War Revisited- Part XXIII – Widening the War https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xxiii-widening-the-war/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xxiii-widening-the-war/#respond Tue, 19 May 2020 00:16:04 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1178 When the media exposed that Nixon had secretly extended the war effort into Cambodia, authorizing our combat troops to eradicate enemy sanctuaries, lawless outrage erupted in the U.S. The anti-war activism gained momentum in reaction to an invasion of a supposedly neutral country in Indochina. The public uproar, fanned by mostly negative press, accused Nixon […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xxiii-widening-the-war/feed/ 0 1178 50th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive – Part 2 https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-tet-offensive-part-2/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-tet-offensive-part-2/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2018 20:27:45 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=545 50th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive – Turbulent Times The North Vietnam invasion of South Vietnam on the Chinese New Year in 1968 went on for a year and was marked by the most intense and sustained fighting of the war. (I detailed more about this in my first post, 50th Anniversary of the Tet […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-tet-offensive-part-2/feed/ 1 545 50th Anniversary of the 1968 Tet Offensive https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-1968-tet-offensive/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-1968-tet-offensive/#respond Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:22:37 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=519 The Tet Offensive – 50 Years Later Few will recall that pivotal period in the Vietnam War, much less will it come to mind this month. Half of the United States population was not born yet, and many of those who experienced the turbulent era have passed on. For survivors and the veterans who served, […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-1968-tet-offensive/feed/ 0 519 RECALL – Coming Soon and Cover Art https://rlawsonauthor.com/recall-coming-soon-and-cover-art/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/recall-coming-soon-and-cover-art/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:05:42 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=472 RECALL, my latest novel will be launching very soon… In anticipation of its launch, I wanted to share its cover and the thought that went behind the design process. The cover artist’s custom rendition is a modern style of a 1965 Vietnam medical air evacuation, capturing a poignant scene in an art form that softens the […]

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