Fatemeh Mozafari - M.A in English Literature, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

This study tries to survey the relationship between Foucauldian biopolitics which is a subdivision of Foucault’s socio-political approach to power and the roots of the American-Vietnam war by scrutinizing Barthelme’s “Report; that is to say, it attempts to examine the story in order to extract biopolitical instruments that the United States used in Vietnam to increase its power by weakening its enemies. Generally, on the one hand, powerful countries slaughter those who threaten the biological existence of their own superlative race and expose the weaker species to destruction in order to guarantee their biological existence; they, on the other hand, increase their knowledge of medicine so as to raise the level of public health of their own citizens leading to population growth and mortality reduction; that is why biopolitical techniques they employ in their own country are opposed to those used in underdeveloped countries. Thus, it can be concluded that the United States seeks to control and regulate the world’s population by .exercising regulatory power

Foucauldian biopolitics, power, Vietnam war, United States, Michael Foucault