American War

April 30, 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the end of what we call the Vietnam war.

The American war – named from what the conflict was called to Vietnam – confronts the myths and the reliefs which continue to haunt our collective war memory. While the account in force tends to focus on war as an embarrassment for the United States, which emphasizes the false statements in which the greatest losses were. The American war reveals the persistent effects of a conflict that has changed the world, through stories of military failure, the diaspora of refugees and discourse and adoption policies that still persist today.