A Vietnam veteran reflects on his role in the Battle of Ia Drang and explains why the film based on the events captured the ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason why nuclear war remains so chillingly ...

Guerrilla warfare has always thrived on tools that turn weakness into opportunity. Across jungles, mountains, and dense ...

The U.S. once condemned ship seizures as acts of piracy, but now we're seizing oil tankers off Venezuela's coast while ...

Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French soldiers surrendered to him at Dien Bien Phu after a 57-day siege. The ...

North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - More than 2,000 days in a North Vietnamese prison cell taught Edward L. Hubbard lessons he now shares ...

As night descended on April 12, 1972, Navy SEAL Lieutenant Thomas Norris and Petty Officer Third Class Nguyen Van Kiet were ...

“To believe in America, rooted in the American Revolution, is to believe in possibility.” The scope of a Ken Burns project can be tough to capture in words. Of course, everyone knows that a 12-hour ...

A 79-year-old Vietnam veteran is being hailed as a hero after he shot and killed a naked intruder who allegedly broke into his female tenant’s Los Angeles home last week. George Karkoc is now ...

Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

One of the most powerful photographs from the Vietnam War shows a young South Vietnamese girl running down a street, naked and crying. Behind her, South Vietnamese planes had just pummeled her village ...