Those of us who were alive in the Vietnam era will remember the sight of Soviet-built tanks rolling into the presidential ...

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As Norman Podhoretz pointed out in a brilliant retrospective of the war, Vietnam, like Korea, was viewed by U.S. policymakers within the context of the larger policy of containment, formulated by ...

Some of the misconceptions that America acted on in the Vietnam War are stunning. Successive administrations—those of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon—committed some of the ...

Politics played a major role in the war. In 1973, Nixon had the opportunity to use air power to push back. “We were not allowed to attack North Vietnam per se. So what we were left with then is ...

Vietnam War Army veteran ... light on why many Americans opposed the anti-war movement than the war itself. Whether peace activists shortened or prolonged the war became a point of contention ...