This video breaks down the complete U.S. Army rank structure during the Vietnam War, from enlisted soldiers to NCOs, warrant officers, and top commanders. It explains how insignia wasn’t just ...

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

In November 1965, U.S. forces were airlifted into the remote Ia Drang Valley, marking America’s first major battle of the Vietnam War. What followed was a brutal clash between helicopter-borne U.S.

W hat was the Vietnam war? A “quagmire”, as one historian called it? A “commitment looking for a justification”, as a 1960s ...

Vietnam was a war where technology clashed with terrain, and the weapons carried into the jungle typically determined the outcome of an entire fight American units relied on rifles, helicopters, tanks ...