WHEN the monsoon rains began last April, the Viet Cong and PAVN (People’s Army of North Vietnam) had deployed fifty-six main-force battalions in the central highlands of South Vietnam and ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

Key point: They were outnumbered, yet they fought very well. This is the story of their impressive success. America didn’t fight the Vietnam War alone. Though we tend to think that the United States ...

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 ...

The need for new blood in South Viet Nam’s grim war is best argued by the reluctance with which old blood is shed. Last week, as if to confirm the pressing reasons behind Washington’s decision to ...