Armed with abundance : consumerism & soldiering in the Vietnam War
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Armed with abundance : consumerism & soldiering in the Vietnam War
University of North Carolina Press, 2011
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Consumerism and soldiering in the Vietnam War
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-288) and index
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Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance , Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other ""comforts"" share the frame with combat. To address a tenuous morale situation, military authorities, Lair reveals, wielded abundance to insulate soldiers--and, by extension, the American public--from boredom and deprivation, making the project of war perhaps easier and certainly more palatable. The result was dozens of overbuilt bases in South Vietnam that grew more elaborate as the war dragged on. Relying on memoirs, military documents, and G.I. newspapers, Lair finds that consumption and satiety, rather than privation and sacrifice, defined most soldiers' Vietnam deployments. Abundance quarantined the U.S. occupation force from the impoverished people it ostensibly had come to liberate, undermining efforts to win Vietnamese ""hearts and minds"" and burdening veterans with disappointment that their wartime service did not measure up to public expectations. With an epilogue that finds a similar paradigm at work in Iraq, Armed with Abundance offers a unique and provocative perspective on modern American warfare. |Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam--finding that consumption and satiety, rather than privation and sacrifice, defined most soldiers' Vietnam deployments.
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