A recent observation by Richard Haas, of the Council on Foreign Relations, came from the Vietnam years. During that war, it was said that all the Viet Cong had to ...
In 1967, Colonel Robin Olds orchestrated one of the most brilliant aerial deceptions of the Vietnam War. By disguising F-4 Phantoms as vulnerable strike aircraft, American pilots lured North ...
President Trump's war in Iran could become a political quagmire, potentially hurting Republicans in the 2026 elections.
Amid the horrors of war, it’s always tempting for some on the Left to stake out more and more radical sloganeering. This was ...
A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle ...
Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of ...
This 1966 Chevrolet Corvette has spent its life with the same owner, a fire captain and Vietnam veteran, for the past 37 years. It was used and abused, hit both front and rear, when he realized it was ...
Vietnam veteran Andrew Penns of Abilene recalls learning of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination while serving overseas in 1968. The news caused despair and anger among the soldiers. Penns later ...
An Khe, Vietnam, December 1966: Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck speaks to a small group of enlisted men. Steinbeck laughed along when he was asked about a question raised by a popular ...
Filmmaker J.M. Harper takes a hybrid approach, combining new interviews, archival footage and stylized dramatizations, to tell the story of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black special operations team in ...
In February 1966, A-4 Skyhawk was one of the most important (although not the most glamorous) assets of US Navy in the Vietnam War. It was the workhorse that carried out numerous strikes and faced ...