Resources on US nation building

March 22, 2006 6:34 PM

I'm looking for some good resources and reading (books, websites, etc.) on U.S. propoganda and rhetoric in reference to nation building projects in the last 50 years (Vietnam, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan/Iraq).
posted by rbf1138 to law & government (2 comments total)

This seems a little, well, obvious, but you could try the on-line books and excerpts here.
posted by Sonny Jim at 8:23 PM on March 22, 2006

A great resource, though I don't know where you would find them in repository on-line are old State Department briefs from the era. They are the primary source documents for the practices you are talking about. I have one about Vietnam, post French Indochine but pre-war.
posted by mrmojoflying at 6:04 AM on March 23, 2006