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Vietnam David T. Zabecki |
Battle for Saigon In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the "Saigon Circle." The result would be a plethora of battles -- and battles within battles. |
Vietnam John C. McManus |
Battleground Saigon During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 7th Infantry Regiment fought a World War II-style urban battle in the South Vietnamese capital. |
Vietnam Peter Brush |
The Withdrawal from Khe Sanh Two months after withstanding the most ferocious siege of the Vietnam War, Khe Sanh was abandoned to the enemy in 1968. |
Vietnam |
Desperate Hours During Tet: Inside MACV Headquarters As General William Westmoreland's chief of staff at the time of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Maj. Gen. Walter 'Dutch' Kerwin had a key seat with the military inner circle during one of the most critical events of the war. |
Vietnam James I. Marino |
Strategic Crossroads at Khe Sanh Khe Sanh was a deadly pas de deux in which General William C. Westmoreland called the tune and General Vo Nguyen Giap paid the piper. |
Vietnam December 2007 James H. Willbanks |
"The Most Brilliant Commander": Ngo Quang Truong General Norman Schwarzkopf was among those who had utmost respect for South Vietnamese General Ngo Quang Truong. |
Vietnam April 2007 Peter Kross |
John Paul Vann: Man and Legend The outspoken American adviser was a 'hair shirt' for the American command in Vietnam, but he was worth the trouble. |
Vietnam February 2007 James I. Marino |
Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War Like Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Quang Tri City was a vital communications crossroads that the enemy had to take in January of 1968. |
Vietnam Richard W. Hale |
A CIA Officer in Saigon The CIA struggled to keep its operation in Vietnam going until the very fall of Saigon. |
Vietnam February 2008 John E. Gross |
Tet Offensive: The Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh One rifle company's wild ride into the first hours of Tet. |
Vietnam February 2006 John E. Gross |
The Tet Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh The 9th Infantry Division's 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry, fought for control of Bien Hoa and Long Binh on the first day of 1968's Tet Offensive. |
Vietnam June 2007 Peter Brush |
Battle of Khe Sanh: Recounting the Battle's Casualties A Marine veteran of the war's longest battle in 1968 searches for the truth beyond the official numbers. |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 James Donovan |
Combined Action Program: Marines' Alternative to Search and Destroy The U.S. Marine Corps CAP just might have been a viable alternative to MACV's 'big battalions' strategy in Vietnam. |
Vietnam John M. Carland |
Interview with NVA General Tran Van Tra The field commander of military operations in the South, Tran Van Tra was North Vietnam's counterpart to General William Westmoreland. |
Vietnam Stephen B. Young |
LBJ's Disengagement Strategy Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that. |
Vietnam Peter Brush |
What Really Happened at Cam Ne? Although described as one of the top works of 20th-century journalism, the CBS report presented only one side of the story. |
Vietnam Peter Brush |
Operation Niagara: Siege of Khe Sanh The thing that broke the back of the NVA at Khe Sanh in 1968 was the fire of the B-52s. |
Vietnam August 2007 Mark Bernstein |
Vietnam War: Operation Dewey Canyon One of the most successful offensives of the Vietnam War was also one of its most controversial. |
Vietnam February 8, 2005 Peter Brush |
The Buddhist Crisis in Vietnam In 1966, resistance to the Saigon government almost sparked a South Vietnamese civil war. |
Vietnam Kevin D. Randle |
Tet 1969 at Cu Chi One year after the infamous Tet Offensive of 1968, Communist forces tried it again. |
Vietnam December 24, 2004 Peter Kross |
The Taylor Mission to Vietnam President John F. Kennedy's tentative response to the report by General Maxwell Taylor had unintended consequences for the course of the war. |
Vietnam April 2006 Kelly Bell |
Deadly Sapper Attack on Fire Support Base Mary Ann "I never said anything to Doyle about that dog being on alert, but I should have known. It bothered me for years and years. It was my second tour. I should have known." |
Vietnam William L. Adams |
Conversation With the NVA Interviews with a top North Vietnam Army general and two former soldiers provide important insights into the other side's view of the Vietnam war. |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Al Hemingway |
Harvey Barnum: Medal of Honor Recipient In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush. Here, he talks about his experiences during two Vietnam tours. |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 Thomas E. Faley |
Operation Marauder: Allied Offensive in the Mekong Delta On New Year's Day 1966, with Australian and New Zealand combat forces attached, the 173rd Airborne Brigade struck VC positions in the Mekong Delta. |
Vietnam October 2007 William A. Barry |
Air Power in the Siege of Khe Sanh Tactical airlift and aerial fire support during the 77-day siege were key to averting an American Dien Bien Phu and defeating the NVA at Khe Sanh. |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Peter Kross |
The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem Did the bloody downfall of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 put the United States on a slippery slope into a quagmire? |
Vietnam June 2006 James M. Haley |
1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts In an 1861 battle with the French, the Vietnamese showed some of the fighting tenacity they would later display in places like Dien Bien Phu and Hue during the 20th century. |
Parameters Summer 2006 Robert M. Cassidy |
The Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for Counterinsurgency A task force that organizes and integrates special, conventional, and indigenous forces against terrorists, leveraging the best counterinsurgency practices, would be able to carry out the full range of counterinsurgency requirements within an autonomous area of operations. |
Vietnam April 30, 2004 Ray Pezzoli, Jr. |
Vanguards in the Rung Sat Special Zone Operation Lexington III took the war deep into the Rung Sat, whose mangrove swamps and perilous creeks helped make it one of the Viet Cong's safest sanctuaries. |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Colonel William Wilson |
Perspectives: Impossible to Stay Uninvolved U.S. complicity in the overthrow of South Vietnam's president made it impossible to stay uninvolved in the war. |
Vietnam Michael J. Walsh |
Men with Green Faces In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Navy SEALs were the military's 'eyes and ears,' providing vital intelligence on enemy operations. |
Vietnam October 2007 |
Letters From Readers An American Child in War-Torn Saigon... FSB Thunder III, Revisited... General Ngo Quang Truong... etc. |
Vietnam December 2006 Mark DePu |
Vietnam War: The Individual Rotation Policy The individual rotation policy was, in hindsight, clearly one of the worst ideas of the war. At the time, however, military planners had few options. |
Vietnam Tom Evans |
'Sixtys Up!' Mortarmen do one thing in the infantry better than anyone else. They hump equipment--carrying heavy loads everywhere riflemen go. |
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Jeffrey Record |
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? |
Vietnam Paddy Griffith |
Re-evaluating the Role of the 'Dustoff' While it improved the survival rate and confidence level of troops in Vietnam, medevac often distorted the tactical shape of battles. |
Vietnam October 2006 |
Letter Tet in Bien Hoa and Long Binh... An Hoa Combat Base, Revisited... M-24 Chaffee Light Tank... etc. |
Vietnam August 2006 Colonel Dick Camp |
3rd Battalion, 26th Marines Fight With the NVA 324B Division in September 1967 During the Vietnam War As the battalion got the word that it would be relieved, an enemy voice was heard over the battalion radio: "Goodbye, 3/26!" |
Vietnam |
Joe Devlin: The Boat People's Priest Following his five-year ministry in the Mekong Delta, Jesuit priest Joe Devlin became the champion of the Vietnamese boat people who fled to Thailand. |
Vietnam Robert E. O'Melia |
Refugees of Duc Pho Despite the best intentions of a young CORDS officer, a tragic friendly fire incident brought more suffering to the very people he was trying to help. |
Vietnam February 2007 |
Letters from Readers Fire Support Base Thunder III... Naval Gunfire Support... James Megellas... Operation Babylift... etc. |
Vietnam April 2007 |
Letters from Readers Rear Echelon Serviceman... Counting the Days... A War Reporter Returns to Vietnam... etc. |
Vietnam Nicoud & Darragh |
Foreign Legion Specialized Units in Indochina Although best known as one of the finest light infantry forces in the world, the French Foreign Legion had many specialized units in Indochina. |
Vietnam October 2006 Kathy Manney |
Operation Babylift: Evacuating Abandoned Children Orphaned by the Vietnam War American relief effort worked nonstop to evacuate abandoned Amerasian children from Vietnam before Saigon fell in 1975. |
Parameters Summer 2004 Robert M. Cassidy |
Back to the Street without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars This article aims to distill some of the more relevant counterinsurgency lessons from the American military's experiences during Vietnam and before. |
TIME Asia November 14, 2011 Geoffrey Cain |
Good Intentions In his 1955 classic The Quiet American, Graham Greene adroitly foresaw the tragic and absurd quality that came to characterize U.S. intervention in Vietnam. |
Vietnam June 2007 Richard C. Barrett |
Bud Day: Vietnam War POW Hero The only American POW to escape North Vietnam missed being rescued by minutes, costing him more than five years in brutal captivity. |
Vietnam |
Letters From Readers - December 2007 - Vietnam More about Donald Koelper... That one-year tour of duty... Operation Dewey Canyon... etc. |
National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons |
Benghazi Attack Puts Spotlight on Marine Embassy Guards When the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was overrun on Sept. 11, public outcry erupted over whether security at the installation was sufficient. |