Arnold R. Isaacs
A former reporter, foreign and Washington correspondent, and editor for The Baltimore Sun, "Skip" Isaacs covered the last three years of the Vietnam War and is the author of Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia and Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy.
Now a freelance writer and educator, Isaacs has taught at universities in China and Ukraine and has conducted training programs for journalists and journalism students in more than a dozen countries in the former Soviet Union, central and eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
Recent Posts by Arnold R. Isaacs
Afghan Americans and the Heritage of Trauma, by Arnold R. Isaacs
October 18, 2016 by Arnold R. IsaacsThe experience of Afghan refugees has led to high rates of physical and emotional problems. A study of refugees in California reported that nearly half of the study sample -- 31 percent of the men and a startling 58 percent of the women -- met the diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, although only a small fraction had been diagnosed or treated for it. In this chapter of a longer report, Arnold R. Isaacs writes about the war and refugee experience of Afghans in the United States.
No, American Journalists Did Not Lose the Vietnam War — or Disparage the Soldiers Who Fought It
October 18, 2016 by Arnold R. IsaacsArnold R. Isaacs, a war correspondent in Vietnam and author of Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia and Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy, outlines misconceptions about journalists in Vietnam.
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