The Vietnam War was one of the Cold War’s most drawn-out conflicts – but even its end was traumatic, as communist forces raided the city of Saigon in 1975.

America’s attempts at bombing an adversary into submission usually fail. The history of the Vietnam War provides perspective.

Kennedy, Johnson and McNamara were private realists but chose the path of least resistance, writes Fredrik Logevall ...

Explore the defining battles of the Vietnam War (1954 to 1975) and their enduring lessons in this insightful retrospective.

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965, few Americans ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Tucked into a corner of History Park in San Jose is a labor of love. A museum that began as a collection of artifacts about the Vietnam War and the people who fled after the ...

The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that pitted Vietnamese against each other. April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of ...

Kennedy’s decision to send 400 Green Berets to Vietnam began as a quiet advisory mission, but it helped open the door to America’s deeper war in Southeast Asia and gave Special Forces one of its ...

The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...

This week marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. It is also the 30th anniversary of normalized relations between the U.S. and Vietnam, which made them partners in trade. With proposed tariffs now ...

The Vietnam War brought unprecedented activism at the University in forms ranging from peaceful pickets and fasting to sieges on buildings and firebombing. It divided the campus deeply between ...

Lt. William L. Calley, Jr., pictured during his court martial at Fort Benning, Ga., on April 23, 1971. Calley, who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese ...