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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 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 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 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 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. |
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 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 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. |
Outside September 2007 Tim Sohn |
Swim. Bike. Run. Shoot. Kill. Overrun with linebacker types who can't hack the training, recruiters for the Navy SEALs are targeting X Gamers and endurance athletes. Because who wouldn't want Lance Armstrong on the front lines? |
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 |
Letters From Readers - December 2007 - Vietnam More about Donald Koelper... That one-year tour of duty... Operation Dewey Canyon... etc. |
Vietnam April 2007 |
Letters from Readers Rear Echelon Serviceman... Counting the Days... A War Reporter Returns to Vietnam... etc. |
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 Richard W. Hale |
A CIA Officer in Saigon The CIA struggled to keep its operation in Vietnam going until the very fall of Saigon. |
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 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 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 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 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 |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com August 3, 2001 Jeff Stark |
David Halberstam on "Apocalypse Now" The Vietnam reporter and author of "The Best and the Brightest" says that Coppola's epic has only gotten better with time... |
Salon.com May 2, 2001 Bruce Shapiro |
Is it time for a Vietnam truth commission? Suppressed atrocities haunt victims, perpetrators and politics alike. That's why unshrouding the secret history of Sen. Bob Kerrey and the Vietnam War is imperative... |
Vietnam August 2006 |
Vietnam Magazine Letter From the Magazine - August 2006 America loses one of its great moral heroes of the Vietnam War. |
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. |
World War II William H. Langenberg |
Surrender of Seal Faced with impending disaster, the captain of the submarine HMS Seal was forced to choose between surrendering or going down with his ship. |
Vietnam February 2007 |
Letters from Readers Fire Support Base Thunder III... Naval Gunfire Support... James Megellas... Operation Babylift... etc. |
Salon.com March 28, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
Violating the dead Two books tell the truth about the most horrific battle of our time -- and a movie desecrates it... |
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. |
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. |
Vietnam December 2006 |
Letters From Readers Going Home... Palm Sunday Sergeant... Reflections on the Ia Drang... Tony Poe Controversy... |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2014 Stan Bernard |
Gain a Competitive Edge: Think Like a Navy SEAL Pharmaceutical professionals, teams, and organizations can succeed at an elite level by tackling the tough mental challenges of Navy SEAL training. |
Vietnam October 2007 |
Letter From Vietnam Magazine The Vietnam War had its heroes, no less than any other American war. Why have so few Americans ever heard about Native American hero Billy Walkabout? |
Vietnam October 2006 |
Letter Tet in Bien Hoa and Long Binh... An Hoa Combat Base, Revisited... M-24 Chaffee Light Tank... etc. |
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 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? |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Robert Kiyosaki |
Hear This Don't be deaf to what's really happening in your business. |
AskMen.com February 4, 2004 Matthew Simpson |
Top 10 War Movies This list, limited to movies about 20th-century conflicts that include battle scenes, covers some of the best war movies ever made. |
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 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. |
Salon.com August 3, 2000 Louise Steinman |
The girl in the photo A napalmed 9-year-old became a heartbreaking symbol of the Vietnam War -- now a journalist tells her story in a new book. |
Finance & Development September 2008 |
Country Focus Greater integration with the global economy enabled Vietnam to grow rapidly, but also brought massive capital inflows. |
Outside December 2009 Mike Kessler |
The Giving Trip Roadmonkey Adventure Philanthropy is the latest outfitter to combine far-flung travel and community service. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Lam & Friesen |
A Web-Based Database of CIA Declassified Documents on the Vietnam War During the Vietnam War years, the U.S. government generated a large volume of classified documents. The Declassified CIA Documents on the Vietnam War database is the result of a sabbatical leave research project approved and supported by the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. |
U.S. CPSC March 7, 2008 |
Cpsc Initiates Outreach to Vietnam to Ensure Import Safety An agreement calls for information and technical exchanges to implement consumer safety programs. |