The aftermath of Tet brought public discussions about de-escalation, but not before U.S. generals asked for additional troops for a wide-scale âaccelerated pacification program.â Believing that the U.S. was in a position to defeat the North, these military leaders sought to press for a U.S.-South Vietnam offensive.
Environmental Determinism is essentially the theory that the physical environment (especially climate) controls human character and behavior and consequently human cultures and societies. (from http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo101/glossary.html) This idea gained popularity from about 1870-1915.
Such is the power of the form of information.. Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values. The term is believed to have been coined by Thorstein Veblen (1857â1929), an American sociologist and economist.