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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

Cordinator

LTG Guy G. Sawn

Lieutenant General. Vice President of the Association of the United States Navy (AUSA). With more than 35 years of service in the US Army.

Cordinator

David Odalric de Caixal i Mata

Director of the Terrorism and Defense Area of INISEG. Military Historian, expert in International Geostrategy.

Moderator

Laura Velandia

Communication and marketing department of INISEG Colombia

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

Is Chief Academic Officer, Expeditionary Warfare School, Marine Corps University.

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

Dr Frank Blazich

Historian, Division of Political and Military History / National Museum of American History.

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

Chu Lai airfield during the Vietnam war

Dr. Frank Blazich

20 m

Question Time

Cordinator

Col. (R) Jesús Martínez de Merlo

INISEG Military History Master Professor, Colonel of Cavalry (Diploma in Mayor state). He was Head of the Regiment Numancia Cavalry.

Cordinator

Col.(R) Philippe D. Rogers

Graduated with degrees in History and French from the University of Virginia Colonel Rogers participated in international combat operations.

Dr Brian Laslie

Dr. Brian D. Laslie is the Command Historian at the United States Air Force Academy.

LtCol (R) Don Snedeker

Historian, 11th Armored Cavalry Veterans of Vietnam and Cambodia Confirmado.

Dr. Erik Villard

Erik Villard is a Historian for Digital Military in the U.S. Army Center of Military History