Kennedy, Johnson and McNamara were private realists but chose the path of least resistance, writes Fredrik Logevall ...

Kennedy’s decision to send 400 Green Berets to Vietnam began as a quiet advisory mission, but it helped open the door to America’s deeper war in Southeast Asia and gave Special Forces one of its ...

During his second term as president, full of confidence and bluster, Donald Trump has turned to rule by killing, by murder, ...

Winston Churchill coined the term ‘special relationship’ to describe the cultural, political, and military alliance between the US and the UK, developed throughout the 20th century. While having to ...

W hat was the Vietnam war? A “quagmire”, as one historian called it? A “commitment looking for a justification”, as a 1960s ...

Trump said he would have shortened the 19-year war while calling into CNBC's Squawk Box on Tuesday, April 21 Win McNamee/Getty Donald Trump claimed he would have ended the Vietnam War quickly despite ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday reignited an old controversy about his Vietnam War draft deferments while discussing previous U.S. military engagements. “When it’s over and it will end, they [Iran] ...

Donald Trump is really annoyed that anyone is holding him to his repeated assertions that his war with Iran has been a slam-dunk, easy-breezy military romp that will be over before you know it. So in ...

An Editor at Large: Columnist Gerard Baker explains how the public started out opposing the conflict in Iran, in part because of the Trump administration's lack of rhetorical prowess, and how that ...