How the Vietnam War Exposed America’s Military and Political Vulnerabilities

McCall speaks on forgotten side of Vietnam war

Cheryl McCall, a Chipley City Council member, recently spoke to the Friends of the Library about a lesser-known aspect of the Vietnam War—the efforts of military wives to advocate for their missing and captured husbands. Her presentation, February 24, focused on the recently published book Unwavering, which took a decade of research to complete. The book examines how, during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of women organized to bring attention to t…

How the Vietnam War Exposed America’s Military and Political Vulnerabilities

World War II gave birth to an eclectic array of independence movements against Western imperialism in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. These revolutions—and the great powers’ response to them—transformed both world politics and military history in myriad and unexpected ways. Nowhere in the colonized world was the struggle against Western domination waged with more […]