Triumph Forsaken By Mark Moyar, Cambridge University Press, England, 2006, hardcover $32 Mark Moyar […]
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Death on the Airwaves
In the face of a human wave attack, an isolated unit’s survival hung on […]
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Ghosts of the Ia Drang: A Firsthand Account
A young C-130 navigator comes face to face with the human toll of war. […]
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Two Yeats-loving GIs met on a Vietnam mountaintop
The first time I met Goodbody was on a high, mist-shrouded mountaintop in Hiep […]
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The Mig-17 Produced North Vietnam’s First Jet Air-To-Air Victories
The obsolescent fighter entered Soviet service in 1953
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E Flight crews flew sanitized C-130 ‘ghost planes’
During the summer of 1970, I was assigned to the U.S. Air Force 374th […]
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Was Vietnam the most successful war ever fought by the United States?
In May 1970, when I was 14 years old, my family returned to the […]
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Vietnam Book Review: The Father of All Things
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam […]
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Book Review: Cold War Mandarin / Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America’s War in Vietnam, 1950-1963
Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America’s War in Vietnam, […]
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A Hawk Among Hawks
Walt Rostow advised JFK to consider waging nuclear war in Southeast Asia. “There ’s […]