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Vietnam Joe Zentner |
Above and Beyond the Call From Roger Donlon in 1964 to Roy Benavidez in 1981, the Medal of Honor was awarded to 239 Americans who served in Vietnam. |
Vietnam Eddie Morin |
Isaac "Ike" Camacho: First to Escape Captured during a November 1963 attack by VC on the CIDG camp at Hiep Hoa, Isaac Camacho managed to escape from Cambodia after 20 months of captivity. |
Parameters Autumn 2005 Mark Amidon |
Groupthink, Politics, and the Decision to Attempt the Son Tay Rescue With better intelligence, less compartmentalization, a more serious consideration of alternatives, and less groupthink, the Son Tay raid might have met with great success. |
World War II John Bryant |
Robert Felgar: A Bomber Pilot Remembers An interview with Robert Felgar about being shot down and captured in WWII. |
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 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. |
Reason March 2007 Matt Welch |
Be Afraid of President McCain The John McCain presidency effectively began on January 10, 2007, when George W. Bush announced the deployment of five more combat brigades to Iraq. Here is some insight into the frightening mind of an authoritarian maverick. |
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 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 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 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. |
World War II February 2006 Jonathan North |
Soviet Prisoners of War: Forgotten Nazi Victims of World War II For more than 60 years, the Wehrmacht has largely escaped scrutiny for its part in the deaths of more than 3.5 million Soviet prisoners of war. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 February 8, 2005 Peter Brush |
The Buddhist Crisis in Vietnam In 1966, resistance to the Saigon government almost sparked a South Vietnamese civil war. |
Fast Company April 2003 Chuck Salter |
The Ultimate Survivor The Army's Special Forces SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) course was designed by a Green Beret who relied on its four elements -- survival, evasion, resistance, and escape -- to return home from the Vietnam War in one of that war's most improbable survival stories. |
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 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. |
Vietnam |
Letters From Readers - December 2007 - Vietnam More about Donald Koelper... That one-year tour of duty... Operation Dewey Canyon... etc. |
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. |
Military History Quarterly August 4, 2004 Edward J. Drea |
Gulf of Tonkin: 'Received Information Indicating Attack' Forty years after North Vietnamese patrol boats reportedly attacked U.S. destroyers, the sequence of events surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident is finally coming into clearer focus. |
World War II November 2007 Ronald H. Bailey |
The Not-So-Great Escape: German POWs in the U.S. during WWII This time, it was German POWs digging their way out of an Arizona prison camp in a plot that was brilliant, daring, and farcical. |
World War II September 2005 Hans Klein |
Hans Klein: Across the Desert With Rommel's Afrika Korps During his time with the Hermann Goring Division in North Africa, the author's devotion to the Afrika Korps and its commander, Erwin Rommel, was absolute. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Reason December 2007 Matt Welch |
McCain: No Surrender! For Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, critical inquiry stops at the water's edge. |
Vietnam October 2006 |
Letter Tet in Bien Hoa and Long Binh... An Hoa Combat Base, Revisited... M-24 Chaffee Light Tank... etc. |
Vietnam April 2007 |
Letters from Readers Rear Echelon Serviceman... Counting the Days... A War Reporter Returns to Vietnam... etc. |
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. |
Outside December 2009 Mike Kessler |
The Giving Trip Roadmonkey Adventure Philanthropy is the latest outfitter to combine far-flung travel and community service. |
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 February 2007 |
Letters from Readers Fire Support Base Thunder III... Naval Gunfire Support... James Megellas... Operation Babylift... etc. |
Parameters Autumn 2005 Thomas E. Ayres |
"Six Floors" of Detainee Operations in the Post-9/11 World In the aftermath of 9/11, some have called for a ruthless, `gloves-off' response that would sweep aside legal and political obstacles. Yet the American public's response to the Abu Ghraib abuses provides strong evidence that such an approach is still inconsistent with America's values. |
AskMen.com Ben Dutka |
Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low. |
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? |
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. |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Robert Kiyosaki |
Hear This Don't be deaf to what's really happening in your business. |