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October 2, 2020

ALOHA, VIETNAM: RACE AND EMPIRE IN HAWAI’I’S VIETNAMWAR SIMEON MAN

Effects of Hawaiian militarization: Military land use on O’ahu grew rapidly and in 1958 people began to notice that it would start encroaching on plans for urban development so the solution was to build a collaborative environment in which military and civilian peoples can both prosper.In decades following, massive construction projects went under

Importance of Hawaii to the U.S. war inVietnam Hawaii played a significant role as the staging ground for US especially when it came to securing the rest of the world from communismKara village served as site for advanced infantry training for soldiers prior to being deployed into warThe Idea of Hawaii’s addition to the united states did not come as a result of wwII, but it was much older. Hawaii had always linked the US to Asain markets via trade routes. In the 1960’s following the declaration of war ( the Vietnam war ) rea ffi rmed Hawai‘i’s national purpose as a bastion of US military power in the Pacific

way ( ie. wakiki beach ) that would allow for the rapidly growing industry of military tourism.This prompted U.S. military training to be brought into question Kara Village • Difficult terrain within the training grounds helped prepare troops for Vietnam as the terrain they trained on was far more difficult than any terrain in Vietnam. • In order to further prepare, the army constructed replica villages to prepare soldiers. These series of villages included huts with natives inhabitants and together formed Kara village. • Kara village and other villages alikes proved to be crucial in soldiers preparation for jungle and Guerrilla warfare. • The replicas prepared soldiers by putting them in the right mindset. This mindset included racializing their enemy, approaching their whole surrounding as a target of violence, and affirming the unknowability of war. • Kara Village represented the colonial violence at the heart of Hawai‘i’s liberal modernity

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