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

Roger H.C. Donlon was a U.S. Army Special Forces officer and the first recipient of the Medal of Honor for service in the ...

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

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 ...

There are many suggestions floating around Washington D.C. on how to fix the program’s imminent funding issues.

Opinion: Criticism of Rep. Kweisi Mfume for his stance on aid to Israel is valid, Mfume’s primary opponent Mark Conway writes ...

The deformed aluminium canteen with number 170071 was left on the battlefield after martyr Tuyen died. — Courtesy of Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative HANOI: At dawn on May 26, 1972, hundreds of ...

In letters to the House and Senate, the president asserted that the hostilities had “terminated,” in an apparent attempt to ...

An Iranian Vietnam-era F-5 fighter jet slipped past U.S. Patriot PAC-3 air defense batteries and bombed a U.S. base in Kuwait ...

President Trump announced the U.S. would "guide" ships not involved in the war with Iran out of the Strait of Hormuz. A ...

The Indian and Pacific oceans cover roughly half the globe and are dotted with strategically valuable islands. Who has what ...