Viet Nam is for men with double vision. There has never been a war quite like it. Tt is two kinds of combat against a two-faced enemy, and the combination is deadly. One fight pits the U.S. and its ...

Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...

“The guerrillas are the fish, and the people are the water,” wrote Mao Zedong, perhaps the greatest guerrilla fighter of the 20th century. This week the U.S. military speared two of the largest fish ...

THE bolted and heavily guarded gates of Independence Palace in Saigon and the barbed wire and mine fields that protect the concrete blockhouses and family quarters of the civil guard posts in rural ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history ...

Premier Levi Eshkol said here today that the possibility of Viet Cong “or other Far East Asian” participation in training and material support for Arab guerrilla organizations must be taken with all ...

“Good morning, comrades,” intones the announcer pleasantly to all South Viet Nam. “You are listening to Radio Liberation.” With that, the clandestine transmitter broadcasting from North Viet Nam ...

DONG CUNG, Vietnam — For John Kerry in 1969, this was the battlefield: the dark, dense mangrove swamps of the Mekong Delta, with their serpentine waterways and blistering sun and free-roaming bands of ...

Editor's note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...