1. In Japan, the history of the 1970s is often boiled down to these key events: Nixon Shock (that is actually shocks, i.e., currency, 10% tariffs on goods from Japan, and China), first oil shock, second oil shock.
2. About the Vietnam syndrome. Much misunderstood. It actually boils down to: war with draft vs. war (indeed wars) without draft. For the military leadership getting over the Vietnam syndrome was about finding faith in all the high tech weapons they had stockpiled under Reagan. As it turned out, a lot of them didn't work. But they were able to sell the public on the idea that they did, thus justifying the huge budgets spent, to be spent, they are spending etc. CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
