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Vietnam |
Letters From Readers - December 2007 - Vietnam More about Donald Koelper... That one-year tour of duty... Operation Dewey Canyon... 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Don North |
VC Assault on the U.S. Embassy An American reporter witnessed the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the Tet Offensive -- and experienced firsthand the strain between the press and the military. |
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 Marc Phillip Yablonka |
Doctors in a War Zone: The Ultimate Training Ground Western doctors who served in Vietnam, whether military or civilian, returned with a deeply altered perspective of their own professions. |
World War II November 2006 David P. Colley |
African American Platoons in World War II In March 1945, black volunteers forced the first breach in the U.S. Army's color barrier -- the first black soldiers officially serving shoulder to shoulder with whites in an American infantry unit since George Washington was in command of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. |
Vietnam February 2007 |
Letters from Readers Fire Support Base Thunder III... Naval Gunfire Support... James Megellas... Operation Babylift... etc. |
Vietnam John B. Hasema |
Never Forgotten: Accounting for American MIAs Joint Task Force--Full Accounting continues the effort to recover the remains of the 1,991 Americans still missing in Southeast Asia. |
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. |
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 December 2006 |
Letter The Vietnam War produced more than its share of heroes who can stand with the greatest of the previous wars and, in some cases, were actually heroes in those earlier wars. We lost one of those giants on April 2, 2006. |
Vietnam October 2007 |
Letters From Readers An American Child in War-Torn Saigon... FSB Thunder III, Revisited... General Ngo Quang Truong... etc. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 December 2006 |
Letters From Readers Going Home... Palm Sunday Sergeant... Reflections on the Ia Drang... Tony Poe Controversy... |
Parameters Summer 2005 |
Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc. |
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. |
Vietnam June 2005 Paul N. Mitchell |
Another Side of Vietnam: An Army Chaplain Wins Hearts and Minds Like their fathers in World War II, the American GIs in Vietnam went out of their way to help the victims of the war. |
Vietnam October 2006 |
Letter Tet in Bien Hoa and Long Binh... An Hoa Combat Base, Revisited... M-24 Chaffee Light Tank... etc. |
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. |
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 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 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 Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
National Defense February 2004 Harold Kennedy |
From Buck Private to Chief of SOCOM Gen. Bryan "Doug" Brown -- who became head of the U.S. Special Operations Command in September -- joined the Army as a private in 1967. |
Salon.com August 2, 2000 Jake Tapper |
Ex-Clinton official slams Bush and Cheney war records Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jesse Brown asks why "neither one went to Vietnam, when they were clearly of Vietnam age." |
Vietnam August 2006 |
Vietnam Magazine Letter From the Magazine - August 2006 America loses one of its great moral heroes of the Vietnam War. |
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. |
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2000 Robert Dreyfuss |
Apocalypse Still Twenty-five years after the war ended, millions of Vietnamese continue to suffer the toxic consequences of America's most devastating chemical weapon -- Agent Orange. |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Robert Kiyosaki |
Hear This Don't be deaf to what's really happening in your business. |
PC Magazine August 31, 2005 Peter Suciu |
Modern Warfare Game Reviews of the latest in war games. Act of War: Direct Action... Battlefield 2, Close Combat: First to Fight... Cold War Conflicts: Days in the Field 1950-1973... Elite Warriors: Vietnam... Will of Steel... |
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? |