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

The military and diplomatic situation in the Persian Gulf bears virtually no similarity to that in 1972. Here's why.

A new analysis cautions against using the U.S. military's 1972 'Christmas bombings' in Vietnam as a model for pressuring Iran into nuclear concessions. While the Vietnam campaign coincided with ...

You do have to look at the real world factors. We're enforcing a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz but Iran also effectively ...

James Smither spent nearly two decades piecing together what actually occured during the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord.

In The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli states it is ideal to be both loved and feared, but because they rarely coexist, it is safer to be feared than loved. He argues that fear is more reliable than love, ...

President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday it would’ve taken him just five months to end a war he refused to fight in. Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Trump bragged about how quickly he ended the war in ...

Oliver Stone’s Platoon, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and was a massive box office success, opened the door for a new conversation about Vietnam both at the cinema and in wider culture ...

President Donald Trump blurted out a stunning claim about the Vietnam War in a CNBC interview — which was made all the more stunning by the fact that he avoided service in that war and called avoiding ...

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

President Donald Trump on Tuesday reignited an old controversy about his Vietnam War draft deferments while discussing previous U.S. military engagements. “When it’s over and it will end, they [Iran] ...