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The Shards of Wartime

Rehan Dadi  —  Apr 10, 2012

Rehan Dadi '15 reviews Indochina, Traces of a Mother, an introspective study of the long-term consequences of the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia and West Africa. The film played at Cornell Cinema for one night over the weekend

Study: Aerial Bombing Ineffective for U.S. In Vietnam Conflict

David Marten  —  Mar 29, 2011

Prof. Thomas B. Pepinsky, government, and two Yale professors found that aerial bombing in the Vietnam War that targeted civilians was counterproductive to United States counterinsurgency operations.

Trudging Through Obama’s War

Cody Gault  —  Sep 18, 2009

Just because George W. Bush has passed you the baton does not mean it is OK to use it as a bludgeon.

Next month will mark the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, a war instigated by Bush and inherited by President Barack Obama.

For the last six of those years the Afghan conflict has shared the public stage with, and played second banana to, the Iraq war. But as Obama vows to wind down the Iraq war and rev up the Afghan war, Afghanistan may end up taking centre stage — and defining Obama’s legacy.

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