Geographical imaginations of the global Vietnam War

The Vietnam War is one of the most profound episodes to occur in the twentieth century yet geography’s influence on appraising the conflict is scarcely known inside the discipline and typically ignored outside of it. This paper responds to these issues by presenting three concepts on the global nature of the war: territory, circuitry, and memory. Moving beyond the myth of a singular Vietnam and United States, my argument centers on the global Vietnam War, leading to clarity about what geography has accomplished in advancing a wider spatial-temporal understanding of the war. The conclusion critiques geography’s gaps concerning the war.