Evangelical warrior-manhood discourse endured past the Gulf War’s supposed cure for Vietnam syndrome

Evidence

Writing before the Gulf War had restored faith in American power and the strength of the military, Dalbey’s preoccupation with Vietnam is understandable, yet the pattern he established would endure long after an easy victory in the latter conflict supposedly brought an end to “Vietnam syndrome.” American evangelicals would continue to be haunted by Vietnam. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 368

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did Vietnam trauma persist among evangelicals after the Gulf War supposedly exorcised it? Worth chasing in later chapters.
• XREF: connects to: Evangelical media rehabilitated the military’s public image in post-Vietnam America — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 308; Evangelicals saw the military as a bastion of masculine traditional values — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 305; Evangelical masculinity literature glorified war and conquest as masculine virtues — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 403 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Evangelical media rehabilitated the military’s public image in post-Vietnam America — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 308; Evangelicals saw the military as a bastion of masculine traditional values — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 305; Evangelical masculinity literature glorified war and conquest as masculine virtues — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 403 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Evangelicals celebrated Desert Storm as redemption from Vietnam #complicates (0.85) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 320