1. Vietnam, Iraq & Afghanistan: Different or the Same?
Public Support and Presidential Leadership
What does the author claim is the reason public support was largely not behind these wars?
Policy Objectives
2. What does the author claim was the issue with policy objectives in all three wars?
Military Strategy
3. What was the main difference in goal of military strategy in Vietnam vs. in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Fighting Spirit and Style
4. What were fighting conditions like in Vietnam?
5. What were fighting conditions like in Iraq?
6. What were fighting conditions like in Afghanistan?
7. How long did fights last in Vietnam?
8. In terms of time, how were fights different in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Links To Home
9. Explain the feeling of going off to fight in the Vietnam War.
10. Explain the feeling of going off to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Death
11. In Vietnam, “______ was not rare; it was accepted from the start as normal in ________ _______.”
12. How many total fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan?
13. How many more times was that number in Vietnam?
14. We fought more ______ in ______ and ______ than in ______....Because the _____ were so ______ and the objectives so much more related to ____________ rather than _______, willingness to take risks to ____ the enemy was ____.”
15. When we don’t know _____ we’re doing or ____ we’re doing it, we have _____ ____ ___”.