[Pols-announce] FW: US war in VN symposium

[Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick]

FYI

From: Bailey, Beth <blbailey at ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 10:46 AM
To: Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick <dhmarkel at ku.edu>
Subject: US war in VN symposium


Hi Don,
I thought you and some of your faculty and graduate students might be interested in this. The ASA (M&RA) is the keynote speaker, and much of the discussion is about institutional (military) policy and practice. Would you be willing to distribute this announcement and attachments through the Political Science mailing list? I'd appreciate it!
All best,
Beth (Bailey)

Symposium:
Manpower & Morale after Tet

Saturday, April 27
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Adams Alumni Center, University of Kansas

Registration is now open through the link below.

In the months and years following the 1968 Tet Offensive, the US media documented a growing "crisis of morale" among American service personnel in Vietnam; there were frequent stories of malaise and desertion, drug use, racial conflict, combat refusal and challenges to legitimate authority, along with reports of scandals and atrocities. Internal military documents tell much the same story.

What did happen then? Why did morale appear to plummet? How did US military leaders understand the extent and significance of the problems they confronted, and equally significantly, how did they try to manage the crisis?

This full-day symposium brings together scholars of the US war in Vietnam (including scholars who are veterans of that war) for conversations about how the US military defined problems of manpower and morale and wrestled with solutions that ranged from the mundane and predictable to the unexpectedly creative.

Dr. E. Casey Wardynski, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, will offer the keynote address: "Army Personnel Policy since Vietnam: Lessons Learned for Today's All-Volunteer Force." The luncheon talk will be given by Ms. Chris Noel, a former actress who entertained troops in Vietnam and then served as a veterans' advocate in the decades that followed.

For attendance, registration is recommended though not required. To reserve a meal at lunch, please register here:
https://ipsr.ku.edu/military/tet/index.shtml

Manpower & Morale after Tet is co-sponsored by KU's Center for Military, War, and Society Studies and the US Army Center of Military History.

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