Anyone out there? (Vietnam topic)

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

For some time, the Vietnam War article was among the largest on CZ. I have been working, roughly chronologically, in making "Vietnam War" proper a high-level capstone, breaking down to sub-articles (and indeed lower levels than those) to keep things at maintainable sizes.  There has been no response on the talk page, so I've been going ahead--I certainly would appreciate collaboration as this is a large effort.

In splitting the subarticles, I have been doing some substantive editing. Where it is a technical matter of equipment or tactics with which I have direct familiarity, I have made the changes or will do so. In some cases, such as "Air Assault", I wrote a general article, not specific to Vietnam (and it needs splitting); I have done so for other topics. Topics like the LINEBACKER bombing operations have relevance to non-Vietnam discussions of air warfare in general.

Also, I have used a principle that if it is indeed the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese are its focus. An early version of Vietnam War said that the article was written from a U.S. perspective. I disagree, and created an article "Vietnam, war, and the United States". I believe the latter both makes the set more maintainable, and also helps reduce some partisanship in the article.

The main article is, in no way, finished. With a few exceptions, I have gotten roughly to late 1964.

Anyone interested in this?

(copied to Military Workgroup, where I may be the only active editor)