The War That Never Ends: New Perspectives on the Vietnam War - Paperbackby David L. Anderson (Editor), John Ernst (Editor) More than three decades after the final withdrawal of American troops from Southeast Asia, the legacy of the Vietnam War continues to influence political, military, and cultural discourse. Journalists, politicians, scholars, pundits, and others have used the conflict to analyze each of America's subsequent military engagements. Many Americans have observed that Vietnam era terms such as "cut and run,"