North Vietnam's Best General Beat France at Dien Bien Phu, Then Failed With the Same Tactics Against Marines at Khe Sanh Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French...
Operation Linebacker II: The Bombing Campaign That Forced North Vietnam to the Peace Table in 1973 North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals...
The Walking Dead in Vietnam: How 1st Battalion, 9th Marines Earned the Marine Corps' Highest Casualty Rate When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight...
Life as a Vietnam War Medic: Ohio Veteran Shares His Story U.S. Army veteran Randy Ark shares his story of life a medic in Vietnam in a revealing memoir.
America’s Secret WWII OSS Mission in Vietnam to Arm Ho Chi Minh Against Japan In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to...
Why America’s Air-to-Air Kill Ratio Dropped So Much During the Vietnam War American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller...
The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War: Green Berets and Seabees Fight for Survival at Dong Xoai Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling...
The Vietnam War Through a Different Lens More than 50 years later, Holmberg decided to publish his photo collection in a new book, “Crossing the Pass of Clouds: An...
Bravo Company Vietnam Veterans Honored with Long-Overdue Bronze Stars While it took more than five decades, 14 veterans of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, were...
Russia, Vietnam Use Energy Profits to Avoid Possible US Sanctions for Arms Deals Under the system, Vietnam has purchased Russian military equipment on credit from Moscow, then paid that credit back from its...
The Latest in Ex-Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill's $25 Million Defamation Lawsuit The $25 million defamation lawsuit by ex-Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill could be decided by a jury in state or federal court.
Veterans Can Now Get VA Auto Grants Every 10 Years. Here's What Changed A disabled veteran who received a Department of Veterans Affairs automobile grant decades ago can now apply for another one.
US Space Force Turns 6: Has It Met Expectations? The U.S. Space Force marked its sixth anniversary in December, reflecting a shift from stand-up to sustained operations as...
A U-Boat Killed 763 American Soldiers on Christmas Eve in 1944. The Army Kept It Secret for 50 Years Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944...
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