From Lt. Calley to John Rambo: repatriating the Vietnam War

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The Rambo films complete the transition of Vietnam veterans from psycho-vets to wounded heroes and supermen. The films epitomize the warrior/king ideology because the main character John Rambo is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goal, an ends justify the means ideology, and yet the films carefully make all the people he kills evil. Rambo banishes the images of William Calley who led the My Lai 4 massacre with no justification at all. The films resolve the conflict between a violent masculine ideal and a social anti-killing attitude by making the violence simply a means to a higher goal.

Psychological aspects, Portrayals, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Vietnam veterans, Rambo: First Blood Part II (Motion picture)

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The Johnson administration and the British Labour government: Vietnam, the pound and east of Suez

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The middle 1960s saw the ascendancy of Pres. Lyndon Johnson and Prime Min. Harold Wilson as the heads of state of the US and UK, respectively, and the intermingling interests of both states. Such relationship determined, to some extent, UK economic and military policies such as the refusal to devalue the pound so as not to detrimentally affect the dollar and support for US activity in Vietnam.

United Kingdom, United States, International relations, United States foreign relations, British foreign relations, Johnson, Lyndon B., Wilson, Harold, Lord

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