WHAT:  Write a short essay (minimum 5 pages, maximum 6 pages, double spaced) responding to the questions below, focusing on the readings for weeks 4 and 5 of the course (April 23 to May 6) in David Vine, The United States of War: chapters 6 to 10 (pp. 99 to 193).    
QUESTIONS:  What are your main takeaways? What has most surprised you, and why? Following up on Vine’s Introduction and chapters 1-5, which you already read for Assignment 1, but focusing now on chapter 6-10, how does Vine continue to elaborate his argument in the book and answer the key questions he posed in his Introduction?  What do you think?  Is his argument persuasive, or not?  How so, or how not?
WHEN DUE and HOW TO SUBMIT:  Submit your midterm paper on Tuesday, May 7, both: (1) online as a file upload on this canvas space, by 11:50 am; and also (2) printed on paper (stapled, with your name), at 5:00 pm, in class (a paper version of what you submitted online).