In hindsight, the connection between the various countries of Southeast Asia is less predictable than the
domino theory asserted.
During the Cold War a "
Domino Theory" concerning the fall of countries into the camp of communism was frequently used to justify political or even military intervention.
One of the arguments for the Vietnam War was the so-called
domino theory. If South Vietnam was to fall to the Communists, other countries in South-East Asia would tumble before Communist insurgency.
Central to the war in Vietnam was the logic of the "
domino theory", namely that if Vietnam fell to communism other Asian states would follow, thus endangering US national security.
McNamara admitted that the US administrations of Kennedy and Johnson failed to address "the fundamental issues", while hiding behind the discredited "
domino theory" that if Vietnam went communist, the whole of SouthEast Asia would follow.
Rumors of devaluation in Latvia have lead to a
domino theory being discussed by the media.
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"Look at Dominos Pizza, their sales are up 18.4 per cent on last years numbers." Expanding on the
Domino Theory, Lock reads out some market-update insight on the Pizza brand: "we are benefiting from recession-hit consumers staying in to save money and switching to take-aways instead of dining out or going to the pub," he says.
These were times when if you spoke of a downward thrust of Communism or the
domino theory you were laughed out of court.
America was motivated by the
domino theory, which held that the fall of Vietnam would lead to one communist victory after another throughout the world.
Moyar announces that "the
domino theory was valid," that Vietnam was "a wise war fought under foolish constraints," and that the United States could have won the war early on had it stuck with Diem and invaded Laos and North Vietnam--bold moves that would have provoked "a Chinese abstention from the fighting." He further announces that the stakes were enormous.
He's not afraid to attack sacred cows and does his best to dispel myths such as the
Domino Theory and the sins of Diem.
With the vast, vast majority of Americans, the quoted Lutherans were anti-Communist, and most of them were taught by the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidential administrations to see the Vietnam War in the context of the "
domino theory," a theory that saw Vietnam as one of the dominoes which, if left to fall, would lead to more drastic falls.
Japanese politicians should speak out against the nuclear
domino theory, not go along with it.
But, as the
domino theory would have it, and in the spirit of a nuclear chain reaction, there are also three other kinds of people--those who pronounce Hawaii [special font needed], those who pronounce it [special font needed], and those--"he shuddered here--"who pronounce it [special font needed]." He shot me a sniper's squint.
