You can see Newsweek 's timidity in post-Vietnam terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerrey's Terrible Story Shows Journalism Split] Reference

And the playbook they used post-Vietnam is clearly understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [After The Veto -- What's Next For Dems On Iraq?] Reference

It was just post-Vietnam for me, so there was some connections.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2003] Reference

They share a post-Vietnam skepticism about the advice of generals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The '60S Democrats] Reference

That's why I'm so glad we have a post-Vietnam candidate running this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Blasts Obama As Unfit To Defend America] Reference

One component of the dreaded post-Vietnam syndrome was fear of embarrassment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bombs Over Baghdad] Reference

Colin Powell’s post-Vietnam career was a time for networking and advancement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printing: Colin Powell Being Colin Powell] Reference

This isn't post-Vietnam when we had the luxury of the Army and Marines out of action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can We Surge in Afghanistan?] Reference

The generals are post-Vietnam, anxious to prove they are more adept in counterinsurgency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanley Kutler: Obama and the Irony of Afghanistan] Reference

That is why we are so grateful for you to grant RFA your very first post-Vietnam interview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Of The President By Radio Free Asia International] Reference

We told ourselves time-and-again in those days in the post-Vietnam Quagmire period: NEVER AGAIN!.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOW DID IT USED TO BE IN AMERICA 30 YEARS AGO, Grandpa??? Marking 30 Years of Radical Rightwing Islamic movements in the] Reference

At the Pentagon in the post-Vietnam era, the top brass had been very wary of using Special Forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [How He'll Haunt Us] Reference

George Will's criteria for winning wars are cribbed from Colin Powell's old post-Vietnam doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road] Reference

I held my nose, because he just did not seem honest about his Vietnam and post-Vietnam experiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pity the Boys of Haditha] Reference

One day I called all these tigers together and I said, why don't we have some post-Vietnam syndrome?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2002] Reference

Most presidents, post-Vietnam, have been deeply reluctant to see any soldier come home in a body bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear At The Front] Reference

Gen. Meyer made his name in 1980 when he told Congress the post-Vietnam military was a "hollow force.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Studies Deployment] Reference

The US military, in the post-Vietnam era, has been concentrated on producing pure battlefield operators.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2002] Reference

He begins by noting that the 69th, like many post-Vietnam Guard units, had fallen on hard times by 2001.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookmarks] Reference

Is Star Wars actually a kind of antidote to the pessimism of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate generation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sith-Boom-Bah!] Reference

Now, the culture of that time, he's often been revered since as really the epitome of the post-Vietnam era.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2005] Reference

A symbol of the post-Vietnam era, he eschews gubernatorial parks for a dented sedan and a mattress on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blood Sport] Reference

The post-Vietnam era dawned on a society that saw money not going as far and our mortality staring us in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christina Pirello: Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat] Reference

It was kind of the first post-Vietnam War effort that recording artists made in a big way for a humanitarian cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2009] Reference

Anyone who remembers the post-Vietnam era knows that these numbers, scary as they are, are just the tip of the iceberg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Rieckhoff: Highest Army Suicide Rate in 26 Years] Reference

I remember the late 1970s, i.e. as the so-called political and spiritual post-Vietnam era malaise spread across America.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOW DID IT USED TO BE IN AMERICA 30 YEARS AGO, Grandpa??? Marking 30 Years of Radical Rightwing Islamic movements in the] Reference

That's why in the 1970s and '80s and' 90s, we put an enormous effort into the buildup of their capabilities post-Vietnam.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2001] Reference

The army was able to tame racial prejudice and conquer its post-Vietnam drug habit largely by fiat and strict enforcement.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question Of Consent] Reference

The general officer corps that you have today and the corps that has emerged over many many years … RAZ: This is post-Vietnam?.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Battle Ensured U.S. Return To Iraq, Author Says] Reference

History has shown that he was right on Vietnam; too bad the post-Vietnam Democrats let revisionist Republicans re-write history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudy Attacks Hillary As Being Like George McGovern -- Even Though He Voted For McGovern Himself] Reference

Iraq, for example, cannot be fully explained without referencing the military's post-Vietnam backlash against irregular warfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Elkus: Debate Some Doctrine] Reference

For certain (fortunately powerless) tenured radicals and antiwar vets, this post-Vietnam reflex seems as comfortable as an old sandal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blame America At Your Peril] Reference

It is also a political argument and an effort to restore the post-Vietnam image of the Democrats as the party that is soft on defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torture: Ineffective, Illegal, and Unprincipled] Reference

But the condition of the post-Vietnam Navy turned out to be an abiding lesson to Mr. McCain about what happens to a defeated military.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does Obama Understand Defeat?] Reference

In 1981 he told me that VA staffers considered his advocacy for post-Vietnam syndrome as "dishonoring the service" of Vietnam veterans.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Owe Our Injured Military Veterans Good Treatment] Reference

The post-Vietnam brass now calling the shots live to get counterinsurgency right, to correct what they think their predecessors got wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Levine: Would it Be Worse if McCain Were President?] Reference

Since our post-Vietnam government highly restricts information access and has rewritten history, you can be forgiven for not knowing this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Approps Chair Obey Says He'll Block Funding For War Without Withdrawal Date] Reference