What were the causes and consequences of the French defeat in Indochina and the North American intervention and of other allied countries in the conflict. Why did the US lose in the Vietnam War?

Presentation

The Vietnam War, also called the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as the War of Resistance against the United States, was a military conflict fought between 1955 and 1975 to prevent the reunification of Vietnam under a communist government. In this 2-day seminar you will learn all the details of this important war, from the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and the French defeat in the First Indochina War. Going through the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 and the North American intervention in the conflict, with several and important battles against the Vietcong and the regular forces of North Vietnam, until the withdrawal in 1975 from Saigon, which would put an end to the presence of the USA in Vietnam and would end the Second Indochina War.

Our speakers

Meet the protagonists of the seminar

Guy C Sawn
Coordinator
LTG Guy G. Swan
Lieutenant General. Vice President of the Association of the United States Navy (AUSA). With more than 35 years of service in the US Army.
David de Caixal
Coordinator
David Odalric de Caixal i Mata
Director of the Terrorism and Defense Area of INISEG. Military Historian, expert in International Geostrategy.
Laura Velandia
Moderator
Laura Velandia
Communication and marketing department of INISEG Colombia
Dr Eduardo Juarez
Dr Eduardo Juárez
Director of the INISEG Doctoral School Doctor in Geography and History. He is a professor of INISEG and Carlos III University of Madrid.
Dr Kirklin Bateman
Dr Kirklin Bateman
Is Chief Academic Officer, Expeditionary Warfare School, Marine Corps University.
Marie Plus
Marie Plus
Professor of Military History at the Chair of Tactics and of Military History of the Center for Doctrine and Teaching of the Command (Paris Militar School)
Dr. Tyler R. White
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska
Erin R. McCoy, PhD
Erin R. McCoy, PhD
Erin R. McCoy is an Associate Professor of English & Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.
Arthur Gullachsen
Captain Arthur Gullachsen, CD, PhD
Associate Professor/Professeur agrégé Department of History/Département d'histoire Royal Military College of Canada/Collège militaire royal du Canada
Philippe D Rogers
Col.(R) Philippe D. Rogers
Graduated with degrees in History and French from the University of Virginia Colonel Rogers participated in international combat operations.
Brian Laslie
Dr Brian Laslie
Dr. Brian D. Laslie is the Command Historian at the United States Air Force Academy.
Don Snedeker
LtCol (R) Don Snedeker
Historian, 11th Armored Cavalry Veterans of Vietnam and Cambodia Confirmado.
Uyen H. Nguyen
Uyen H. "Carie" Nguyen
Academic Fellow of the Institute for Peace and Conflict and Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at Texas Tech University
Guy C Sawn
Dr. Jorge Corrado
Director of INISEG in Argentina. Director General of the IEEBA, Institute of Strategic Studies of Buenos Aires.
Guy C Sawn
Col.(R) Juan Ignacio Salafranca
INISEG Military History Master Professor, Colonel of Infantry (R), during his career to state in different international destinations.
Robert Thompson
Ph.D Robert J. Thompson
Robert J. Thompson is a historian of the American War in Vietnam. He is the author of the book Clear, Hold, and Destroy: Pacification in Phú Yên and the American War in Vietnam
Dr Kirklin Bateman
Professor Steve Recca
Steve Recca directs the University and Agency Partnership Program for the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Craig Tibbitts
Craig Tibbitts
Craig Tibbitts has worked at the Australian War Memorial for over 20 years, both as an archivist and military historian. He spent many years working with Vietnam War records and was lead researcher on the Memorial's Vietnam Medical Legacies Project, which resulted in Dr Peter Yule's book, The Long Shadow: Australia’s Vietnam Veterans After the War.

Programming

Day 1 | February 23

16:00
Presentation and start of the seminar

LTG Guy C. Swan

David Odalric de Caixal i Mata

16:30
Military intelligence in the Vietnam War

Dr. Eduardo Juárez

17:10
The Siege of Khe Sanh and the Marines Involvement in Vietnam

Dr. Kirklin Bateman

18:05
Diên Biên Phu, 1954 : Résistance sans espoir d'un camp retranché français ?

Marie Plus

18:45
American military intelligence in the vietnam conflict

Dr. Tyler White

19:25
Attempted Reconciliation: The Role of Karl Marlantes in Burns & Novick’s 2017 Documentary The Vietnam War

Erin R. McCoy, Ph.D

30 min.
Question Time

Day 2 | February 24

16:00
Presentation of the second day
16:10
The B-52 strikes of Linebacker II on Hanoi in December 1972

Captain Arthur Gullachsen Ph.D

16:40
CAP (Combined Action Program) in Vietnam's Marine Sector

Col. Philippe D. Rogers

17:25
Air Power's Lost Cause? The American Air Wars of Vietnam

Dr Brian Laslie

18:05
Ground operations in Vietnam / The use of armored forces in a counterinsurgency

LtCol Don Snedeker

18:45
Lotus in a Sea of Fire": the U.S. Army's Mobile Advisory Teams in Viet Nam

Uyen H. "Carie" Nguyen

20 min.
Question Time

Day 3 | February 25

16:30
Presentation of the thirth day
16:40
The strategic concept in the Vietnam War. From Sun Tzu to Clausewitz

Profesor Jorge Corrado

17:20
The military campaign of the French army in Indochina, historical background of a defeat

Coronel Juan Ignacio Salafranca Álvarez

17:55
'Consequently, no one knows:' Understanding Pacification and the War in Phú Yên

Robert Thompson

18:45
Ground operations in Vietnam / The use of armored forces in a counterinsurgency

Steve Recca

19:30
The Australian Army in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan

Craig Tibbitts

20 min.
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