This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

Paul R. Ignatius, a management consultant who served as secretary of the Navy at the height of the Vietnam War and spent two ...

Apr. 15—MITCHELL — For more than half a century, Vietnam veteran Jim Anderson held onto a memory — a brief wartime encounter, a father's untold story, and a promise to one day find a book that hadn't ...

South Vietnam, July 30, 1969: President Richard Nixon chats with men of 3rd Squadron, 17th Infantry Cavalry on their helicopter airfield at Di An, base camp of the 1st Infantry Division. The president ...

Since the last American soldier left South Vietnam in 1975, the history of Special Operations has become its own niche in the wider history of the war. If the reader is familiar with the genre, they ...

The year is 1969, the height of the war in Vietnam. The United States has been involved for about four years at this point and the war is growing more and more unpopular by the day. The Vietnam War ...

SEOUL — As the U.S. and South Korea celebrate the 70th anniversary of their alliance this year, they will consider how their partnership, frequently characterized as "ironclad," is preparing for the ...

There is a Navy ship named for Schenectady. The USS Schenectady was named at the suggestion of a Schenectady schoolgirl who wrote a letter to the secretary of the Navy, asking for the possibility of ...

CEDAR SPRINGS, Mich. — William Kyle Gowen spent his 21st birthday landing in Vietnam. The year was 1968, and he was a Marine Corps medic. "Stayed there 10 and a half months," said Gowen. "Got three ...

Perhaps the most challenging thing about having written a book about the 1968 presidential election is that every time there is political violence or student protests in America, people compare those ...