The Posse Comitatus Act forbids the use of the military in law enforcement. The War Powers Resolution, passed to limit ...

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 ...

America didn’t fight the Vietnam War alone. Though we tend to think that the United States did all the fighting, there were other nations as well. Australia was one of them. Some sixty thousand ...

It is commonly believed that the Vietnam War was waged only by the United States armed forces against the Communists of the North, but the reality was much different. As part of the Free World ...

The diplomatic flurries around the world over fresh peace probes during the past two weeks have all but obscured a grim new reality in the actual warfare in Viet Nam. The fighting so far in 1968, as ...

Fort Huachuca, Arizona - Prior to the commitment of U.S. combat troops to the conflict in Vietnam in 1965, the Military Assistance Command--Vietnam, MACV, received intelligence support from two Army ...

Harlan Ullman writes that U.S. military technology “wasn’t able to defeat the guerilla warfare of North Vietnam” (Letters, Aug. 9). As a veteran of those battles, I respectfully object. The guerilla ...

As U.S. air strikes to the North mounted in fury last week, the Viet Cong were moving closer and closer to control of the whole top third of South Viet Nam. An atmosphere of siege prevailed in Hue, ...

During the Cold War (1947-1991), the U.S. and Russia avoid nuclear annihilation by waging "proxy wars," supporting opposing sides in regional conflicts. Vietnam is a classic proxy war, with the Viet ...

When South Vietnam fell to North Vietnamese forces in 1975, an estimated 125,000 Vietnamese refugees fled to the United States to avoid retribution at the hands of the North Vietnamese. Among those ...

Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey in Vietnam for the Armed Forces Network, was beloved by many of the American troops who served in Vietnam. (Air Force) Adrian Cronauer, a legend of the Vietnam War, and ...