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During the predawn hours of 30 January 1968, the Vietnam War took on a new dimension--and the thin line between life and death became all too real for Specialist Five [...]

The follies of violence and rhetoric in the Vietnam War and World War II have a lot of lessons for the leaders of Israel, Iran and the next American president. [...]

US troops have used shotguns to a greater or lesser degree in all of this country's wars. Vietnam was no exception, shotguns seeing action with point men on patrols or [...]

From biblical times until the mid-nineteenth century, military chaplains went into battle as combatants. That began to change in the 1860s with the development of modern national and international laws [...]

Byline: Ed Kilgore For many a baby-boomer, the sights and sounds of (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/university-protests-college-campus-palestine-gaza.html) student protests against U.S. complicity in Israel's war in Gaza brought back vivid memories of the anti-Vietnam [...]

USS John L. Canley joined the active fleet as the US Navy's newest warship, a floating sea base. The Canley is the Navy's sixth expeditionary mobile base (ESB). The first [...]

Ho Chi Minh is credited as being the political leader who liberated Vietnam. He achieved this by first ending French colonial rule in 1954, then his strategies led to victory [...]

If asked, 'When did America lose the Vietnam War?' most respondents with some knowledge of the war would likely answer, 'April 30, 1975.' That day, North Vietnamese Army tanks crashed [...]

AMEDD vs AMEDS In 1950, Congress changed the name of the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) to the Army Medical Service (AMEDS) as part of the Army Organization Act of 1950. [...]

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, overlooking Washington from a hill at Virginias Arlington National Cemetery, has come to symbolize the sacrifices of all U.S. service members who died in [...]

When they gave the twenty-minute warning, Catherine Leroy was waiting in her assigned seat on the left side of the C-130 cargo plane, the air thick with the heat of [...]

The deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history is Charles 'Chuck' Mawhinney. During the Vietnam War, he had 103 confirmed kills and 216 probable kills over 16 months in country. But [...]

PHANTOMS IN THE AIR 1965 Three US Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft, in flight during the Vietnam War. The Phantom was capable of hitting twice the speed of [...]

THE END OF THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR LEFT ISRAELI FORCES ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE SUEZ CANAL AND EGYPTIAN FORCES ON THE WEST SIDE, BUT THERE WAS NO PEACE [...]

FEATURES / SURPRISING FACTS THE VIETNAM WAR 7 THINGS Y DIDN'T (PROBABLY) DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE VIETNA WAR Jem Duducu shares facts about the era-defining conflict in which the US [...]

During the Vietnam War, the skies were filled with fast jet fighters, huge bombers, droning transports and thudding helicopters. They were hard to miss. Other aircraft, less noticed but no [...]

Popular culture interest in the Vietnam War reached a peak in the 1980s, which saw a string of war movies like Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill, Off Limits and [...]

THE PROBLEM OF AIRCREWS BEING KILLED BY PREMATURE BOMB DETONATION BEGAN EARLY IN THE VIETNAM WAR. The first known instance occurred on November 12, 1965, when Captain William Miller was [...]

For many people, the Vietnam War was a loss of innocence for an entire generation. Young American men volunteered or were drafted to fight in a conflict that polarised opinion [...]

For those of you who were too young, too old, or weren't around, I will give you a taste of what it was like to grow up as a young [...]

Many senior officials believe that emphasis on counterterrorism for the past two decades has compromised the ability of the U.S. armed forces to perform other critical military missions and that strategic competition, not terrorism, must now be the primary concern. This essay provides observations on the future role of the armed forces in counterterrorism and the future role of counterterrorism forces in great power competition. It notes that it will be difficult to demote counterterrorism while terrorists still remain a threat. However, there will be a further shift to counterterrorism without counterinsurgency. Dividing the military into near-peer warfare and counterterrorism camps makes little sense. Future wars will require U.S. commanders to orchestrate capabilities to counter an array of conventional and unconventional modes of conflict, including terrorism. Reduced defense spending in the post-pandemic environment will further increase pressure to cut counterterrorism--but the savings will be modest. Shifting priorities should not mean discarding competence. The hard-won skills that result from decades of counterterrorism operations are fungible, indeed valuable to future military challenges, including great power competition. Terrorism itself is constantly evolving, demanding new approaches. The ability to rapidly adapt to changing threats is applicable to strategic competition., For almost two decades since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the paramount mission of the U.S. security establishment has been counterterrorism--specifically, defeating the jihadi terrorist enterprise and preventing it or any [...]

The list of the Vietnam War's iconic aircraft--with the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber, Bell's UH-1 'Huey' helicopter and the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber usually near the top--doesn't often [...]

'You know you never defeated us on the battlefield' said the American colonel. The North Vietnamese colonel pondered this remark a moment. 'That may be so' he replied, 'but it [...]

Dean Kahler heard bullets hit the ground around him as he lay facedown on the grass, his hands covering his head. He was a student at Kent State University in [...]

PILOTS LOVED THE THUD. EXCEPT FOR TEST PILOTS, WHO WERE PAID TO FIND FAULTS, THE REPUBLIC F-105 THUNDERCHIEF SEEMS TO HAVE HAD NO DETRACTORS. Aviators as well as ground crews [...]