Unlocking insights from Vietnam and other global struggles: Lessons in conflict's complexity, unintended consequences, and ...
When thinking about the Vietnam War, what comes to mind? Perhaps it is the sights and smells of napalm or the harrowing scenes in magazines or newspapers. Maybe it is watching the fall of Saigon ...
People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...
HO CHI MINH CITY — Military officers stoop to inspect slim green cannons along the Saigon River. Construction equipment whines as workers erect towering bleachers in a downtown park. Fighter jets and ...
Wil Haygood’s “The War Within a War” is a rare, illuminating look at the way the war shaped the struggle for equality back home. By Brent Staples Brent Staples is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer on ...
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965, few Americans ...
January 19 marks the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Paracel Islands, the first naval battle between China and Vietnam in the 20th century and a key conflict in the quest to control the South ...
Filmmaker J.M. Harper takes a hybrid approach, combining new interviews, archival footage and stylized dramatizations, to tell the story of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black special operations team in ...